An eight-year-old boy has been stabbed to death, and his parents wounded in a domestic dispute at their apartment in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York.
The 20-year-old suspect was shot by an NYPD officer at the scene of the crime. The cops claim that the officer’s actions saved the lives of the boy’s father and an eight-month-old baby girl.
The victims and the suspect are all thought to be members of the same family. The suspect and the eight-year-old boy are believed to have been brothers or stepbrothers. The police have not yet released any names.
At a press conference yesterday evening, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell explained that at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, a 29-year-old mother came running out of an apartment building at 147-25 94th Ave. She had a stab wound to her back and was calling for help; she ran to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police station on the corner.
At the same time, the apartment building security dialed 911, and officers arrived at the scene in three minutes.
The officers entered an “extremely small” apartment on the fifth floor, where they found the suspect holding the 43-year-old father in a headlock. He allegedly had the father’s head over a sink and was holding a knife to his throat.
Eight-year-old boy and suspect perpetrator pronounced dead after stabbing in Jamaica, Queens
The cops ordered the man in both English and Spanish to drop the knife multiple times, and when he failed to do so, an officer shot him with one round.
Watch the Latest on our YouTube ChannelThe four family members were rushed to a hospital where the eight-year-old and the 20-year-old suspected perpetrator passed away.
The NYPD stated that on hearing of the boy’s death, one of the responding officers remarked, “We wish we could of got [there] a little sooner.”
The two parents are expected to survive their injuries. The baby was thankfully unharmed in the incident.
NYPD officers made split-second decision that likely saved two lives during Queens stabbing incident
Chief of Patrol Chell stressed how his officers had to make a split-second decision to act, a decision that likely saved the lives of the father and an eight-month-old baby who was also in the apartment. Chell also said it was a stark reminder of the type of situation officers are required to walk into every day.
The NYPD also released the image of a bloody kitchen knife lying beside a sink and said the case would now be handed over to the detective bureau, who would figure out what happened in that apartment yesterday afternoon.
The investigation is ongoing.