More than $7K raised for children of Bellport mom killed at Yaphank gas station

Police say Juliann Bachmann, 30, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend at a Speedway on Horseblock Road over the weekend

Nearly $7,000 has been raised for the three young children of a Bellport mother killed at a Yaphank gas station last week, as the community rallies around a family shattered by violence.

Juliann Bachmann, 30, was stabbed to death, allegedly by her boyfriend, Michael McHenry, 40, at the Speedway on Horseblock Road on the morning of May 16, Suffolk Police said.

Officers found the woman injured and unresponsive in a vehicle at the station about 7:25 a.m. on Saturday. She was taken to NYU Langone Hospital – Suffolk in Patchogue, where she was pronounced dead.

As GLI previously reported, McHenry allegedly stabbed Bachmann in the neck and chest, attacking her inside her car before dragging her out and continuing the assault on the ground as bystanders watched in horror.

He fled on foot before police arrived, cops said, and was arrested that Saturday at 8:13 p.m. At his arraignment on Sunday in Suffolk County First District Court in Central Islip, he pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.

McHenry, who is being held without bail, had been on parole since March 11, released after serving about one year and three months on a second-degree attempted assault conviction. Property records indicate the two lived together at the same Wisteria Circle address in the Rosemont Brookhaven apartment complex — less than a mile from where Bachmann was killed.

“My nieces and nephew no longer have their sole provider,” Kristen Bachmann wrote in the GoFundMe campaign she launched this week. “As my family and I navigate these excruciatingly painful times, we ask for any help her friends and community can offer. These funds will help with taking care of her children and providing the life for them that they deserve.”

As of Tuesday at 6:15 p.m., the campaign had raised more than $7,000 from 75-plus donations. On Sunday, about 50 friends and relatives gathered at a vigil held at the Speedway where Bachmann was killed.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Suffolk County Homicide Squad at 631.852.6392 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1.800.220.TIPS.

_{Top: Michael McHenry (Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office) and Juliann Bachmann (courtesy of GoFundMe).}