Erratic NYC tenant runs amok, allegedly stabs neighbor: 'She has been nothing but trouble' - New York Post

A Queens pistillate who allegedly spent months harassing her neighbour and landlord was arrested Saturday for stabbing her chap tenant, constabulary and witnesses told The Post.

The alleged attacker and the unfortunate each rented abstracted units successful the multi-family location successful South Ozone Park, wherever the landlord lived downstairs.

The bloody battle unfolded conscionable earlier 8 a.m. erstwhile Najia M. Vaughn allegedly knocked connected her neighbor’s door, began arguing with the pistillate inside, past pulled retired a weapon and cut the 31-year-old unfortunate connected the forehead, thorax and leg, residents and authorities said.

Vaughn, 28, fled and was arrested astir a artifact away, constabulary said. She was charged with felony battle and transgression possession of a weapon.

The accused attacker, who receives rental assistance from the city, moved into the 127th Street location successful May, and was referred to the spot by the city’s Human Resources Administration, said her terrified landlord, who did not privation to beryllium named.

Najia Vaughn is the fishy successful the alleged attack.Courtesy photo

The unfortunate was taken to Jamaica Medical Center, wherever she was hospitalized, the NYPD said.

“Since she [Vaughn] is here…she has been thing but trouble,” the landlord fumed to The Post.

The unhinged woman’s $1,945 rent for the one-bedroom flat was paid by CityFHEPS, a rental assistance program, the landlord said.

Vaughn, 28, fled and was arrested astir a artifact away, constabulary said.Brigitte Stelzer

The accused attacker, who receives rental assistance from the city, moved into the 127th Street location successful May.Brigitte Stelzer

The woman’s erratic behaviour had frightened residents for months, and the stabbing is the latest successful an evident laundry database of disturbing behavior.

The homeowner, who lives downstairs with her 7-year-old girl and sister, claims Vaughn, who lives upstairs, has tried to acceptable the location connected fire; flooded the landlord’s flat and keyed her car; repeatedly banged connected the landlord’s and the victim’s doors; and adjacent jumped retired of her ain second-floor apartment.

“The metropolis should measure these radical very, precise cautiously earlier they enactment them successful backstage houses. They are putting the owner’s beingness successful danger, they are putting the tenant’s beingness successful danger, they are putting the spot successful danger,” the landlord said, adding, “I person to present walk truthful overmuch money, I don’t cognize what harm she did successful her apartment. I americium precise very scared. I americium frightened to permission my location by itself, that she bash something.”

Some of the h2o harm seen connected the ceiling of the landlord’s apartment.Courtesy photo

The landlord said she heard banging connected her doorway astatine 6:30 a.m. connected Thanksgiving Day, but did not answer. On Saturday morning, she was saying her prayers erstwhile she heard screaming.

“I thought she was warring with her boyfriend, due to the fact that that’s what she usually do, past I perceive the different miss screaming. I substance her to spot if she’s ok, she said, ‘I americium stabbed.’ I said I’m going to telephone the police. She says she called the police.”

The landlord said she saw her victimized tenant contention down the steps and extracurricular the building, “blood each implicit her face.”

The landlord showing a lighter the fishy allegedly used.Brigitte Stelzer

Hot cooking lipid with a bluish lighter that the fishy allegedly threw onto the landlord’s flat and yard.Courtesy photo

The landlord surmised the unsuspecting unfortunate was attacked aft answering the beforehand doorway reasoning it was the police, lone to recognize it was the twisted tenant, who had already been knocking connected her neighbor’s doorway earlier successful the morning.

“She was caught off-guard. She conscionable came retired of the bathroom, she had a robe on. She thought it was the constabulary who was knocking connected her door. She had called the constabulary due to the fact that [Vaughn] was bothering her,” the landlord said.

Police person travel to the location astatine slightest erstwhile a week for the past 3 months, a adjacent doorway neighbour said, portion a nonmigratory crossed the thoroughfare said cops person been predominant visitors to the troubled home.

The landlord’s car was allegedly scratched by the suspect.Courtesy photo

The NYPD did not instantly person accusation regarding past occupation with Vaughn astatine the building. Victim and attacker are “known to each other,” an NYPD spokesperson said.