Authorities say an 8-year-old boy has died after a stabbing in Jamaica, Queens on Thursday evening.
An 8-year-old boy is dead after a stabbing in Queens on Thursday evening. According to authorities, at around 5:20 p.m., a woman came out of a building on 94th Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica , bleeding after having been stabbed in the back and pleading for help. Officers responded to the scene and went into a 5th-floor apartment where they found the suspect, a 20-year-old man, holding his father in a headlock, with a knife to the father's throat.
The officers gave repeated commands to the suspect to drop the knife, which he did not obey, leading one of the officers to fire a single round at the suspect, striking and incapacitating him.Police sources tell FOX 5 NY that the 20-year-old and the 8-year-old were alone in the apartment when the 20-year-old stabbed the child. The pair's parents walked into the apartment and discovered the scene. The 8-year-old was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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