A Queens man was gunned down by police Thursday after he stabbed an 8-year-old boy to death and tried to harm his own father.
The 20-year-old suspect was in the kitchen holding a knife to his 43-year-old father’s neck when officers responded to their apartment at around 5:15 p.m.
Police were alerted to the bloodbath by the suspect’s stepmother who was also wounded when she ran outside and flagged down an MTA cop at a nearby subway station.
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said the suspect was holding his father’s head over
a sink and refusing to drop his knife.
“They have to use their weapons to save this man’s life and that is what they did,” Chell said.
After firing a fatal shot at the suspect, cops searched the home to find a deceased 8-year-old boy, believed to be the suspect’s brother or stepbrother.
An 8-month-old baby girl was found unharmed inside the residence.
Neighbors recalled the suspect as a usually quiet young man. His parents and the slain boy were always happy and joyful.
“[The victim] was always joyful, a regular 8-year-old kid, always jumping around –
so cute with his little glasses…He went to my son’s birthday party last year,” one said.
