A Queens lady severely harm after police mentioned she jumped from her third-story window to get away from her troubled, knife-wielding son was so scared of him, she developed a secret knock to let her neighbor know if she was in peril, a constructing resident mentioned.
The sufferer, 64, who has not been publicly recognized, had an order of safety in opposition to her son on the time she took her terrifying plunge, police mentioned Saturday, and neighbors described an extended, contentious historical past between the 2.
A number of neighbors mentioned the son has psychological points, and that it wasn’t unusual to listen to the pair yelling at one another.
“They are always arguing,” mentioned one lady who had described the mother’s secret lifeline to her neighbor. “It’s not uncommon to hear noise over there.”
When the mom was scared, she tapped out a misery name to the following door neighbor, who would name 911 for her, the girl added.
“When the neighbor heard her knocking, she called 911,” mentioned the resident, who requested to stay nameless. “She said she saw [the mom] going out [the window].”
She was discovered sprawled face down on the bottom outdoors her Shore Boulevard condominium round 9 p.m. Friday, cops and neighbors mentioned.
The mom suffered a number of damaged bones, together with her leg, and a mind bleed amongst different accidents, her daughter informed The Submit.
“My mother, she’s stabilized, but she needs to go through surgeries, and the doctor said it’s too early to tell, but she didn’t just break legs, she broke her femur, her leg, her shoulder, multiple face fractures,” the daughter mentioned. “She has internal bleeding in her stomach. She had a brain bleed but they took care of it.”
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“He is a monster,” the sister mentioned of her brother.
Police believed her son was nonetheless inside and armed with a knife after they arrived, so started making an attempt to ascertain communications with him, cops mentioned. However by the point they received inside, he had escaped.
He was nonetheless being hunted for questioning within the incident late Saturday.
The son has almost 60 prior arrests on his document, 18 of them are sealed, police sources mentioned.
He was final arrested in July 2024 for allegedly shoplifting at a close-by TJ Maxx twice, on March 24 and Might 20, the supply mentioned. He threatened to strike an worker with brass knuckles in one of many incidents and was charged with theft, the sources added.
He allegedly stole about $1,000 price of merchandise, together with sneakers and purses, the sources mentioned.
A person who recognized himself as her son claimed to The Submit he was “miles away” when his mother took her terrifying plunge.
“I’m in a state of shock,” he mentioned. “I heard from miles and miles away. I’m surprised, I’m surprised that happened to her.”
“I heard she fell but I don’t know if it’s a severe fall, if it’s a minute or big fall,” he mentioned. “Somebody said she just broke her leg. Somebody telling she’s in a coma. I can’t find out exactly what happened to her because she got an order of protection on me.”
He denied being dwelling when his mom was injured.
“I could have been there a few days ago, maybe, but not at the time of the alleged incident,” he mentioned.
He hung up when a reporter requested in regards to the purpose for the protecting order.
