A toddler and a child died in a Bronx house on Saturday night time after every was stabbed a number of occasions within the neck and torso, authorities stated. The mom of each kids, who had been recognized as 3-year-old and 11-month-old boys, was taken into custody and is being held as a "individual of curiosity," in response to 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 night time that officers had been first dispatched to a third-floor house in a Bronx household shelter at round 7:20 p.m. ET, responding to a report of a lady behaving erratically. Though preliminary proof instructed that she was not appearing violently and there have been no weapons on the premises, police had been advised the lady had tried to burn gadgets within the unit's kitchen.
Once they arrived, officers discovered the 24-year-old girl bare and "appearing 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 good friend advised police that the lady's kids had been with their father, in response to Deceglie. However quickly after, dispatchers obtained one other 911 name reporting that two kids had been "unresponsive, not respiration" on the similar location, he stated.
Patrol officers then returned to the house 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 youngsters had 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 house on a stretcher, in response to CBS New York.
"We do not know what is going on on. I simply heard them yelling and screaming. He stored saying, screaming, 'Assist me, assist me, assist me.' That is when he run the boys out. They had been bare and blood throughout them," the neighbor advised the station. "He stated, 'She killed them, she killed them.'"