:mad: how much longer must we be subjected to this rash of out of control knife murders :mad:
The morning after a man stabbed and killed a 6-year-old boy and critically wounded a 7-year-old girl in an elevator in a Brooklyn housing project, the killer remained at-large and community leaders said the search was being complicated because there was no video surveillance in the building.
Some 12 hours after the brutal and apparently random attack, a police helicopter circled above the East New York neighborhood, K-9 units were deployed and dozens of police officers swept through the Boulevard Houses on Schenck Avenue looking for witnesses.
Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, said in an interview that $400,000 had been allocated in 2010 for cameras to be installed in the project but that the New York City Housing Authority failed to act.
?To date that money is sitting there and has not been activated yet,? Mr. Adams said. ?After it was allocated, it fell into the Nycha black hole.?
A representative of the housing authority said the agency was looking into the matter.
Mr. Adams said that the girl who was attacked, Mikayla Capers, was recovering and had been able to provide a description of the suspect to the police.
Prince Joshua Avitto, 6, who was known as "P.J.," was fatally stabbed Sunday.
Police Commissioner William J. Bratton is expected to brief reporters later Monday morning on the investigation.
On Sunday night, Deputy Chief Patrick Conry said the suspect had been described by witnesses as a heavyset young man in his 20s. He fled the scene on foot, leaving behind one dead child, one critically wounded child and the bloody knife used in the attack.
Mikayla and her friend, Prince Joshua Avitto, were heading out on the spring evening to get Icees and hopped in an elevator at the Boulevard Houses around 6 p.m.
Charles Barron, a former New York City councilman who represented East New York, with Ms. Trevathan on Monday. Credit Uli Seit for The New York Times
When the elevator reached the ground floor, its doors opened to reveal a scene of carnage, according to the police.
The boy was mortally wounded. The girl stumbled into the lobby before collapsing. And the man fled outside on foot.
On Monday morning, with the tip of her cane holding down a blowing ribbon of police tape, and the soles of her shoes mere feet from splatters of blood on the sidewalk in front of the Boulevard Houses, Regenia Trevathan described the damage done to her great-granddaughter.
?There are multiple stab wounds to her body, defensive wounds to her hands -- there?s more than 15 stab wounds to my child,? Ms. Trevathan, 62, said, referring to Mikayla.
?I just can?t fathom it,? Ms. Trevathan said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/ny...ject.html?_r=0