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5 Dead, Including Suspect, and 2 Officers Wounded in Queens Stabbing
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/nyregion/stabbing-queens-nyc.html5 Dead, Including Suspect, and 2 Officers Wounded in Queens Stabbing
The attack occurred early Sunday morning at a house in Far Rockaway, where the suspect also started a fire, the police said.
By Emma Bubola
Dec. 3, 2023
Updated 2:05 p.m. ET
Four family members, including two children, were stabbed to death at a home in Queens early Sunday morning, the police said. The suspect also started a fire at the house and then stabbed two police officers who arrived at the scene before one of them shot him dead, according to Police Department officials.
At about 5:10 a.m. the police received an emergency call from a young woman who said that her cousin was killing her family members, the chief of department, Jeffrey Maddrey, said at a news conference on Sunday morning.
Two officers who responded to the location, on Beach 22nd Street in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, saw a man leaving with luggage, Chief Maddrey said. When they stopped him, the man stabbed one officer in the head and the other in the neck with a steak knife before one of the officers shot him.
The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officers’ wounds were not life threatening, Chief Maddrey said at the news conference, which was in front of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where they were being treated.
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The attack occurred early Sunday morning at a house in Far Rockaway, where the suspect also started a fire, the police said.
By Emma Bubola
Dec. 3, 2023
Updated 2:05 p.m. ET
Four family members, including two children, were stabbed to death at a home in Queens early Sunday morning, the police said. The suspect also started a fire at the house and then stabbed two police officers who arrived at the scene before one of them shot him dead, according to Police Department officials.
At about 5:10 a.m. the police received an emergency call from a young woman who said that her cousin was killing her family members, the chief of department, Jeffrey Maddrey, said at a news conference on Sunday morning.
Two officers who responded to the location, on Beach 22nd Street in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, saw a man leaving with luggage, Chief Maddrey said. When they stopped him, the man stabbed one officer in the head and the other in the neck with a steak knife before one of the officers shot him.
The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officers’ wounds were not life threatening, Chief Maddrey said at the news conference, which was in front of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where they were being treated.
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