Police shoot suspect after 4 youngsters are stabbed in New York residence

A number of folks have been significantly injured Sunday morning in a brutal stabbing assault in a New York residence.

Police shot the attacker, who slashed 4 youngsters at a residence in Brooklyn with a meat cleaver, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned at a briefing Sunday afternoon.

The police division bought a name at round 10:15 a.m. for an assault in progress at 1671 84th St. in Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, she mentioned.

“The 11-year-old caller said that she and her siblings had been stabbed by her uncle,” Tisch mentioned, including that the kid didn’t know her deal with however that police technicians have been capable of decide it utilizing know-how.

Officers have been let into the residence by an unhurt baby and heard screams coming from a door to their left. They kicked down the door of the house and noticed a person standing close to the doorway “holding a big meat cleaver lined in blood,” Tisch mentioned.

“And so they may see blood on the ground and the partitions of the house,” she mentioned.

The person, who was recognized as Longqian Chen, 49, was ordered to drop the weapon a number of occasions however refused and superior towards officers, authorities mentioned.

“Two officers discharged their firearms, firing seven whole rounds between them and hanging the topic, ending the risk,” Tisch mentioned. Tisch mentioned Chen was taken to a hospital in important situation.

Officers discovered 4 victims, all women, ages 8, 11, 13 and 16, Tisch mentioned. All of them had “critical slash and stab wounds,” and have been taken to space hospitals, the place they’re anticipated to outlive. Police mentioned one other baby, an unhurt boy, was additionally on the residence through the assault and went to the neighbor’s home to ask the neighbor to name 911.

Police mentioned that they consider the person is said to the victims however that they’re nonetheless investigating the precise relationship.

Tisch lauded the heroism of the 11-year-old woman, who hid in a room to name police, and the boy, who went to alert a neighbor.

Two knives have been recovered, and a motive is below investigation, police mentioned. The person has a historical past of psychological sickness, police mentioned, citing his household.

There have been no earlier cases of home violence on the residence, Tisch mentioned.

CORRECTION (April 6, 2025, 3:47 p.m. ET) On account of an enhancing error, a earlier model of this text misstated that the suspect was fatally shot. He was shot and brought to the hospital in important situation, police mentioned.