New York girl in custody after toddler, 11-month-old discovered fatally stabbed within the Bronx

A toddler and a child died in a Bronx house on Saturday evening 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 accordance with the New York Metropolis Police Division. The police investigation is lively and ongoing.

NYPD Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie stated at a news conference late on Saturday evening 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 girl behaving erratically. Though preliminary proof steered that she was not appearing violently and there have been no weapons on the premises, police had been informed the lady had tried to burn objects within the unit’s kitchen.

After 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 title has not been launched.

Earlier than leaving for the hospital, a household pal informed police that the lady’s kids had been with their father, in accordance with Deceglie. However quickly after, dispatchers acquired 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 kids 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 therapy at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the place they died of their accidents, Deceglie stated.

One neighbor stated that she noticed the kids being carried out of the house on a stretcher, in accordance 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 had been bare and blood throughout them,” the neighbor informed the station. “He stated, ‘She killed them, she killed them.'”