A toddler and a child died in a Bronx condo on Saturday evening after every was stabbed a number of instances within the neck and torso, authorities stated. The mom of each kids, who have been recognized as 3-year-old and 11-month-old boys, was taken into custody and is being held as a “particular person of curiosity,” in keeping with the New York Metropolis Police Division. The police investigation is energetic and ongoing.
NYPD Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie stated at a information convention late on Saturday evening that officers have been first dispatched to a third-floor condo in a Bronx household shelter at round 7:20 p.m. ET, responding to a report of a girl behaving erratically. Though preliminary proof advised that she was not performing violently and there have been no weapons on the premises, police have been advised the lady had tried to burn objects within the unit’s kitchen.
Once they arrived, officers discovered the 24-year-old lady bare and “performing irrational,” Deceglie stated, including that she was taken into custody with out incident and transported to close by Saint Barnabas Hospital for an analysis. Her identify has not been launched.
Earlier than leaving for the hospital, a household pal advised police that the lady’s kids have been with their father, in keeping with Deceglie. However quickly after, dispatchers obtained one other 911 name reporting that two kids have been “unresponsive, not respiratory” on the identical location, he stated.
Patrol officers then returned to the condo and located the youngsters with a number of stab wounds, and, together with one other member of the family, tried to resuscitate them as they waited for an ambulance to reach. The kids have been transported for remedy at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the place they died of their accidents, Deceglie stated.
One neighbor stated that she noticed the youngsters being carried out of the condo on a stretcher, in keeping with CBS New York.
“We do not know what is going on on. I simply heard them yelling and screaming. He saved saying, screaming, ‘Assist me, assist me, assist me.’ That is when he run the boys out. They have been bare and blood throughout them,” the neighbor advised the station. “He stated, ‘She killed them, she killed them.'”
