A 74-year-old woman was stabbed to death and a second woman wounded in an attack inside a Brooklyn apartment building, cops and neighbors said Sunday.
Police took the suspected stabber, a 43-year-old woman believed to be the slain victim’s relative and roommate, into custody shortly after the chaotic 10:25 p.m. clash inside the Ebbets Field Apartments complex in Crown Heights Saturday.
Neighbors said they heard yells and a man frantically pounding the victim’s 13th-floor door from the hallway after he was locked out of the apartment on Bedford Ave. near Sullivan Place, just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
“It was a lot of shouting. Like they were arguing,” said neighbor Anissa Christian. “The guy was trying to break it up but they locked him out of the house so he couldn’t get in.”
When police arrived, they found the fatally wounded woman stabbed in the head and arms.
Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News
The fatally wounded woman was stabbed in the head and arms inside the Ebbets Field Apartments complex in Crown Heights about 10:25 p.m. Saturday, cops said. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
A 72-year-old woman was stabbed in the back and arm during the clash.
Medics rushed both victims to Kings County Hospital, where the older woman died. Her name was not immediately released. The 72-year-old woman is in stable condition.
“I was home last night,” said Diana Harris, 43, who lives across the hallway from the victim. “I did hear the shouting, the banging. The walls were shaking because the guy, they locked him out so he was pounding on the door saying, ‘Let me in! Let me in!’ He was kicking the door. He was pounding on the door.”
“By the time we could realize what was taking place, the cops was here,” she added.
Ring camera footage from down the hall captured several shouts of “Help!” and “Somebody, help!” The footage shows a person walking back and forth in the hallway, before making a call to what appears to be a 911 dispatcher, describing, “We have a woman, that I think was stabbed, a knife, a scissors.”
Harris and Christian both heard police talking about one of the victims being stabbed by scissors, though an NYPD spokesman had no details Sunday on the murder weapon.
The suspected stabber barricaded herself in the apartment at one point, cop sources told the Dally News. Police took her into custody, though charges against her are still pending, the sources said.
“The police had a hard time getting in. It took them a good while to get in there. The doors are iron,” neighbor Diana Harris told The News.
Harris said the people living in the apartment were generally nice and hard-working.
“One lady, she goes to work everyday. She’s a home attendant,” the neighbor said.
