NYPD officers on the scene in Sunset Park. Five people were killed after a mass stabbing in Brooklyn, officials say.
A woman and four children — the youngest an 18-month-old boy — were stabbed to death Saturday night in a rampage at a Brooklyn apartment, officials said.
A man was in custody and being questioned at the 66th Precinct stationhouse early Sunday, following the bloody spree in an apartment on 57th St., near Ninth Ave., in Sunset Park, a police source said.
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Two of the victims' bodies are placed into the back of the medical examiner's van on 57th St. in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, early Sunday morning.
The toddler and two girls — ages 9 and 6 — were already dead from their wounds when paramedics arrived just after 11 p.m. The emergency responders rushed a 37-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy to area hospitals, but doctors were unable to save them, officials said.
The names of the victims had not been released early Sunday.
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Somber investigators from the medical examiner's office remove another body from the scene of the tragedy.
The unidentified suspect — who sources said may be related to the children — was reportedly found inside the apartment when cops burst in on the grim scene.
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A woman is visibly upset outside the scene of the stabbing.
“It’s looking like a domestic violence case,” one high-ranking police source said.
A parent who wasn’t home when the residents were attacked — at about 10:45 p.m. — was inconsolable, horrified witnesses said.
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Crime scene investigators at the site of the stabbing rampage.
“The father was freaking out,” said neighbor May Chan. “He just came home from work and saw the police and they told him. He was hysterical.
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Investigators at the scene of the bloody spree. A parent who wasn't home during the attack was told the bitter news through a Chinese interpreter, a neighbor says.
Police had to break the bitter news to the parent through a Chinese interpreter, she said.
“I always see (the kids) running around here,” Chan said. “They run around by my garage playing. They run up and down screaming. They’re little kids ... that’s so heartbreaking. Innocent kids, my God.”
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The NYPD interviews neighbors near the scene of the multiple stabbings in Brooklyn.
Neighbors thought they were watching a horror movie.
“I saw the mom and the kid, just covered in blood,” said Kenny Lin, 33, who lives down the street from the gruesome mass killing. “They were both on stretchers.”
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A NYPD vehicle is seen in the neighborhood where the stabbings took place. A neighbor said she always saw the kids running around outside.
Rencong Lee, 26, said she saw a distraught 40-year-old woman — possibly another relative — being comforted by a friend.
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A police source says the crime is looking like a domestic violence case. Here, people out on the street after the horrific stabbings.
“She said, ‘My family was cut ... there’s so much blood,’” Lee said. “She was crying, I think she was panicking.”
“(Then) I saw them put a body in the ambulance.” Lee said.
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FDNY said the victims were found inside a 57th St. building near Ninth Ave. in Sunset Park shortly before 11 p.m. Here, the scene of the mass stabbing.
The man in custody had not been charged early Sunday.
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