Dad Kills Wife, 2 Young Boys in Manhattan Murder Suicide
Dad Kills Wife, 2 Young Boys in Manhattan Murder-Suicide.
A father fatally stabbed his wife and their two young boys — an infant and a toddler — before killing himself inside their Upper West Side apartment, police and sources said.
The dad — who was the superintendent of the building — and mother, 41 and 40, respectively, were discovered inside the fourth-floor apartment on West 86th Street, near Riverside Drive, just before 3 p.m. Monday along with their two kids, a 1-year-old boy and 3-year-old boy, according to cops and sources.
The slain wife’s father and another relative, who is the superintendent of a nearby building, went to check on the four because they hadn’t heard from them since Sunday morning, the sources said.
The relatives called 911 after drilling out the lock of their apartment and seeing blood inside.
First responders found the two kids in the living room with several stab wounds, and two knives nearby, the sources said.
The woman’s body was discovered in the hallway with a deep cut to her neck, while the man was found in a bedroom, lying on a bed with a knife next to him, according to sources.
The apartment was locked from the inside, sources said.
The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Their identities are being withheld pending family notification.
Sources said the father had no known criminal history and there was no prior record of police being called to the family’s apartment.
A father fatally stabbed his wife and their two young boys — an infant and a toddler — before killing himself inside their Upper West Side apartment, police and sources said.
The dad — who was the superintendent of the building — and mother, 41 and 40, respectively, were discovered inside the fourth-floor apartment on West 86th Street, near Riverside Drive, just before 3 p.m. Monday along with their two kids, a 1-year-old boy and 3-year-old boy, according to cops and sources.
The slain wife’s father and another relative, who is the superintendent of a nearby building, went to check on the four because they hadn’t heard from them since Sunday morning, the sources said.
The relatives called 911 after drilling out the lock of their apartment and seeing blood inside.
First responders found the two kids in the living room with several stab wounds, and two knives nearby, the sources said.
The woman’s body was discovered in the hallway with a deep cut to her neck, while the man was found in a bedroom, lying on a bed with a knife next to him, according to sources.
The apartment was locked from the inside, sources said.
The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Their identities are being withheld pending family notification.
Sources said the father had no known criminal history and there was no prior record of police being called to the family’s apartment.
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00:00 Dad kills wife, two young boys in Manhattan murder-suicide.
00:04 A family of four were found dead in an apartment on New York City's Upper West Side in what
00:09 police believe to be a murder-suicide, according to multiple reports.
00:14 Police sources told the New York Post and New York Daily News that the family patriarch,
00:19 41, his wife, 40, along with their one- and three-year-old boys, were discovered inside
00:25 the apartment by law enforcement officers conducting a wellness check.
00:30 The Post reported that the wife was found with a deep cut and that the children had
00:34 been stabbed multiple times.
00:37 The father, who also served as the superintendent of the building, was discovered lying on a
00:42 bed with a knife next to him.
00:44 Two other knives were recovered from the scene, according to NBC New York.
00:50 The apartment was reportedly locked from the inside, and New York fire personnel helped
00:54 breach the residence.
00:57 Sources told the Post that the father had no known criminal history, and that emergency
01:01 personnel had never before been summoned to the apartment.