A baby and a toddler were stabbed to death in New York City, police say - CNN

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Two young brothers – an 11-month-old babe and a 3-year-old lad – were stabbed to decease successful New York City, constabulary said.

The 2 boys were recovered unresponsive with “multiple stab wounds” to their necks and torsos astatine an flat gathering successful the Bronx precocious Saturday, the New York Police Department said. The children were taken to a hospital, but some aboriginal died.

Police initially responded to a telephone astir an emotionally disturbed idiosyncratic astir 7:30 p.m. Saturday, NYPD Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie told reporters.

Officers took a pistillate into constabulary custody, and she was taken to a infirmary successful an ambulance for an evaluation, the NYPD said successful a statement. The flat gathering is listed arsenic a household shelter, according to metropolis records.

Deceglie said erstwhile constabulary responded to the archetypal 911 call, a household person told officers the woman’s children were being cared for by their father. When CNN asked for clarity connected the timeline of the 911 calls and the officers’ response, constabulary refused to remark further.

About fractional an hr later, constabulary received different exigency call. “A 2nd 911 telephone was received reporting to unresponsive babies not breathing astatine the aforesaid location,” Deceglie said.

“Patrol officers returned to the apartment, wherever they recovered an 11-month-old babe lad and a 3-year-old antheral unresponsive with stab wounds, aggregate stab wounds.”

Police said the boys’ 22-year-old parent is successful constabulary custody, and the probe is ongoing. The boys’ begetter is not successful constabulary custody.

The parent has not been publically named arsenic a suspect, and constabulary said she has not been arrested nor charged.