A male suspect attacked four young girls with a meat cleaver in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. The attack left all four victims with “serious slash and stab wounds.”
During a press conference following the attack, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch explained that police dispatchers received a call on Sunday from an 11-year-old victim who reported that “she and her siblings had been stabbed by her uncle.” After pinpointing the location of the stabbing incident, police officers responded to a residence located on 84th Street.
Tisch told reporters that the responding police officers were let into the residence by an uninjured child and “led into a small vestibule facing two more doors.”
“At that point, [the cops] heard screams coming from behind the door to their left and immediately began forcing their way into the apartment, kicking down the door,” Tisch said. “Once they entered, they encountered a man standing near the entrance holding a large meat cleaver covered in blood, and they could see blood on the floor and the walls of the home. The officers ordered the man to drop the weapon several times. He refused and advanced towards them.”
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The New York Police Department commissioner explained that two police officers fired their weapons, shooting seven total rounds and “striking the subject.” Following the confrontation with the suspect, police officials found four female victims, ages 8, 11, 13, and 16. Tisch said the four female victims “all had serious slash and stab wounds.”
“At this time, all four children, thank God, are expected to survive,” Tisch told reporters. “But this could have ended very differently. Officers and EMS arrived at the door within minutes of receiving the 911 call. Their fast, decisive action pinpointing the location and taking down the door absolutely saved the lives of these young girls.”
According to The New York Post, police officials have identified 49-year-old Lun Chang Chen as the suspect in Sunday’s incident. The outlet noted that the suspect was transported to the hospital in critical condition following his confrontation with police officers.
The New York Post reported that the suspect is believed to have lived in the home where the stabbing attack took place; however, the suspect’s motive remains under investigation.
“They brought out a guy on a stretcher, all bloody without a shirt,” Humbert Huerta, a neighbor, told reporters. “I don’t know who it was, but they shot him twice. They took him out and put him in the ambulance.”
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Pictures shared on X, formerly Twitter, show one of the victims covered in blood and law enforcement officials at the scene of Sunday’s stabbing attack.
