NYC Crime: 2 young children stabbed to death in the Bronx; mother in custody - WABC-TV

MOUNT HOPE, The Bronx (WABC) -- Police are investigating aft a three-year-old lad and an 11-month-old lad were stabbed to decease successful the Bronx.

It happened astatine a household structure connected Echo Place successful Mount Hope connected Saturday evening. The boys were recovered with aggregate stab wounds to the cervix and torso.

NYPD held an update Saturday night:

When constabulary arrived they recovered the parent wrong the flat connected the 3rd level acting erratic. Sources accidental the parent past tried to pain the flat down with the stove and past turned the h2o on.

Police past took the parent into custody. She was taken to the infirmary for evaluation.

Less than an hr later, a 2nd 911 telephone was past received reporting 2 unresponsive children astatine the aforesaid location. Officers returned to the flat wherever they recovered the three-year-old and 11-month aged with stab wounds. Officers and different household subordinate attempted to resuscitate the boys, but they were unsuccessful.

Neighbors who unrecorded down the hallway accidental the walls successful the gathering are thin. They accidental they caput the parents of the 2 young boys arguing and screaming earlier successful the night. They besides heard the boys begetter hysterically crying for help.

"He was screaming hysterically. He was screaming 'help me.' And I came and opened my doorway and I seen him coming down the hallway with the 2 boys successful his arms. They were dead, they were dead. There was humor everywhere," said Shannon Holyfield.

The boys were rushed to Columbia Presbyterian successful highly captious information wherever they aboriginal died.

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