A lady was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn throughout a home dispute — and her son was taken into custody as an individual of curiosity within the murder, police and sources mentioned.
Neighbors who heard the sufferer’s screams and raced to the sufferer have been in a position to nab her attacker and maintain him till authorities arrived at 333 E. 92nd St. in East Flatbush.
The deadline incident unfolded round 11:40 p.m. when residents of the seven-story constructing heard the lady’s cries for assist.
“I just heard a loud scream, a woman screaming, ‘Help me!’ ” mentioned one resident, 28, who requested to stay nameless. “After that, I heard a faint moan.”
Police responded to a 911 and located the sufferer with stab wounds all through her physique earlier than taking her son into custody, based on authorities and sources.
The nice Samaritan mentioned he noticed one other man holding the stabber down, and rushed in to present help.
“I went straight for the knife,” he mentioned. “It was a kitchen knife, a steak knife. The blade was seven or eight inches long… I grabbed the blade. I held on to it. He tried to yank it away. It sliced my fingers.”
The sufferer has not been publicly recognized and no arrests have been made.
