LINDA, AMY, KEVIN and WILLIAM ZHUO - 9, 7, 5, 1 yo - (And mother, Qiao Zhen Li) / Charged: Father's cousin, Chen Mingdong - Brooklyn, NY

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Brooklyn mass stabbing leaves 5 dead, many of them children

Four of the victims were children, the youngest an 18-month-old boy. The unidentified suspect — who sources say may be related to the slain children — was reportedly found inside the apartment when cops arrived at the scene.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 11:32 PM
Updated: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 5:40 AM



Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News
NYPD officers on the scene in Sunset Park. Five people were killed after a mass stabbing in Brooklyn, officials say.

A woman and four children — the youngest an 18-month-old boy — were stabbed to death Saturday night in a rampage at a Brooklyn apartment, officials said.
A man was in custody and being questioned at the 66th Precinct stationhouse early Sunday, following the bloody spree in an apartment on 57th St., near Ninth Ave., in Sunset Park, a police source said.

Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News
Two of the victims' bodies are placed into the back of the medical examiner's van on 57th St. in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, early Sunday morning.
The toddler and two girls — ages 9 and 6 — were already dead from their wounds when paramedics arrived just after 11 p.m. The emergency responders rushed a 37-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy to area hospitals, but doctors were unable to save them, officials said.
The names of the victims had not been released early Sunday.

Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News
Somber investigators from the medical examiner's office remove another body from the scene of the tragedy.

The unidentified suspect — who sources said may be related to the children — was reportedly found inside the apartment when cops burst in on the grim scene.

Sam Costanza for New York Daily News
A woman is visibly upset outside the scene of the stabbing.
“It’s looking like a domestic violence case,” one high-ranking police source said.
A parent who wasn’t home when the residents were attacked — at about 10:45 p.m. — was inconsolable, horrified witnesses said.

Sam Costanza for New York Daily News
Crime scene investigators at the site of the stabbing rampage.
“The father was freaking out,” said neighbor May Chan. “He just came home from work and saw the police and they told him. He was hysterical.”

JUSTIN LANE/EPA
Investigators at the scene of the bloody spree. A parent who wasn't home during the attack was told the bitter news through a Chinese interpreter, a neighbor says.
Police had to break the bitter news to the parent through a Chinese interpreter, she said.
“I always see (the kids) running around here,” Chan said. “They run around by my garage playing. They run up and down screaming. They’re little kids ... that’s so heartbreaking. Innocent kids, my God.”

JUSTIN LANE/EPA
The NYPD interviews neighbors near the scene of the multiple stabbings in Brooklyn.
Neighbors thought they were watching a horror movie.
“I saw the mom and the kid, just covered in blood,” said Kenny Lin, 33, who lives down the street from the gruesome mass killing. “They were both on stretchers.”

EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS
A NYPD vehicle is seen in the neighborhood where the stabbings took place. A neighbor said she always saw the kids running around outside.

Rencong Lee, 26, said she saw a distraught 40-year-old woman — possibly another relative — being comforted by a friend.

Sam Costanza for New York Daily News
A police source says the crime is looking like a domestic violence case. Here, people out on the street after the horrific stabbings.
“She said, ‘My family was cut ... there’s so much blood,’” Lee said. “She was crying, I think she was panicking.”
“(Then) I saw them put a body in the ambulance.” Lee said.

Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News
FDNY said the victims were found inside a 57th St. building near Ninth Ave. in Sunset Park shortly before 11 p.m. Here, the scene of the mass stabbing.
The man in custody had not been charged early Sunday. 
With Ryan Sit, Sasha Goldstein and Rocco Parascandola 

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Three of the victims were already dead when paramedics arrived.


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Before Carnage, Frantic Warnings of Relative’s Odd Behavior

Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times

Chen Mingdong, 25, was led out of Brooklyn’s 66th Precinct station house on Sunday after being charged with murdering his cousin’s wife and children. He had been staying with the family in their apartment.


By J. DAVID GOODMAN

Published: October 27, 2013

The phone calls came in rapid succession, each call more frantic than the last, made by a woman intent on warning her relatives that her husband’s 25-year-old cousin, who had been staying with their family only a few days, was not acting right.

By the time the woman could get any of her family members to stop by her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Saturday, it was too late. Inside the apartment, the woman, Qiao Zhen Li, lay unconscious in the kitchen, next to her 5-year-old son, Kevin Zhuo; both were mortally wounded. The bodies of her three other children, all stabbed to death, were in a rear bedroom.

“They bang on the door and they bang on the door,” Chief Philip Banks III, the Police Department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, said of Ms. Li’s relatives.

When they finally got inside on Saturday night, they came upon the carnage, and the man believed to be responsible, Chen Mingdong, covered in blood.

Mr. Chen, the cousin, was charged on Sunday with five counts of murder. He was also charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest; the authorities said he had attacked an officer in the 66th Precinct station house while his arrest was being processed.

The killings tore through the family like a fire: sudden and complete. The five murders in the three-room home on 57th Street, where the children and their parents enjoyed a seemingly ordinary life, the police said, stood out for their brutality and magnitude.

It was “not something that has been seen before in recent memory,” said John J. McCarthy, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.

Chief Banks said the scene was one that was seared into memory. He called the crime an “unspeakable act” visited upon a “normal family.”

That very New York normality appeared to grate on Mr. Chen, who lived an impoverished and itinerant life between Chinatown in Manhattan, Chicago and most recently, his cousin’s home in Sunset Park.

Under interrogation by detectives, conducted in Mandarin, he told of his disillusionment with life since coming to the United States in 2004 and of his jealousy toward those who had found success here. The police listed him as unemployed.

But it remained unclear what prompted him to turn his rage on his cousin’s wife, Ms. Li, 37, and their four children, identified by the police as Linda Zhuo, 9; Amy Zhuo, 7; Kevin; and William Zhuo, 1.

The police said Mr. Chen appeared to have stayed with them before without incident. The family did not appear to be better-off than those who lived around them in their Chinese enclave near Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn, neighbors said. They sent their three school-age children to a local public school, the Education Department said. Ms. Li stayed at home with William. The authorities had no record of troubles in the household.

May Chee, who is a neighbor of the family and grew up on the block, said she would often see Ms. Li outside with her children, who would chase one another and play with the other children who live along 57th Street, a block teeming with young people.

Ms. Li watched over them from her front stoop, often chatting on her cellphone,
said Ms. Chee, who added that the mother did not speak much English.

Few in the area recalled Mr. Chen, who had only recently arrived there.

A woman who lives next to the family and gave her name only as Ms. Zheng said she had seen the cousin in recent days standing outside the two-story, two-family home, smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone.

A cousin of the mother, Yun Gao, 29, told reporters near the home on Sunday that Mr. Chen was emotionally unstable; she did not elaborate.

The only weapon used in the killings, the police said, was a large kitchen knife, described by the authorities as a meat cleaver. Chief Banks said that the bodies “were cut and butchered” and that most of the wounds were to the neck and torso.

Ms. Chee said she saw the children’s father, Yi Lin Zhuo, 31, arrive after the police cars on Saturday night. “He was crying,” she said. “He was screaming.”

Two women arrived with him, one of them weeping.

“It’s so sad,” Ms. Chee said. “The only thing I can do is pray for them, pray for the family. It’s crazy. You don’t kill kids. Don’t take it out on the kids.”

The nature of the attack, using a kitchen implement, pointed to spontaneity, and the number killed surprised even veteran investigators.

“I just can’t think of anything like that,” said Vernon J. Geberth, a retired homicide commander who dealt with thousands of murder investigations. “I’m going to call it a family annihilation, because that would be the technical term that you’d use, and most involve firearms.”

It was a gun that was used by an Amityville, N.Y., man in 1974 to kill his parents, two brothers and two sisters in their home. Similarly, John E. List, a New Jersey accountant, shot his wife, mother and three teenage children to death in 1971.
But in terms of mass family killings using a knife, “we just don’t have any history of that,” Mr. Geberth said. Multiple stabbing deaths are uncommon in general because people have time to escape, he added, though children are often the victims because they are less able to do so.

Indeed, the killings recalled the stabbing deaths on the Upper West Side last year of two children, 6 and 2; the police arrested the family’s nanny, who was said to have harbored anger over her treatment by the children’s parents.

It was not clear what may have precipitated the killings in the Sunset Park apartment or what caused Ms. Li to become alarmed.

Mr. Chen had no prior arrests in New York, the police said, and did not appear to have had trouble with the law in Chicago. Investigators believe that Mr. Chen, who does not speak English, has not left the United States since arriving here nearly 10 years ago.

During the interrogation, Mr. Chen spoke in general of feelings of resentment, the police said.

“He made a very soft comment that since he’s been in this country, everyone seems to be doing better than him,” Chief Banks said.

“We’re not really sure what that means,” he added. “But that is the only thing that we have now. We’re still looking into it.”

Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Mei-Yu Liu and Julie Turkewitz contributed reporting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/nyregion/brooklyn-stabbing.html?_r=0

Victims: Chen is accused of murdering 1-year-old William Zhuo, 7-year-old Amy Zhuo, 9-year-old Linda Zhuo, 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo and their mother Qiao Zhen Li. Two of the children are pictured

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477760/Mother-murdered-Mingdong-Chen-Brooklyn-stabbing-spree-desperately-called-help.html

He'll get off on a mental while four little angels are gone.  I don't have much respect for "Not Guilty by reason of insanity".  It should be guilty and serve a term after mental treatment.  I doubt he's really mental, just using it as an excuse.  William

Murdered Brooklyn Family’s Relatives to Arrive from China


November 5, 2013
Last Updated: November 5, 2013 7:34 pm



Linda Zhuo, 9; Amy Zhuo, 7; Kevin Zhuo, 5; and 18-month-old William Zhuo, were stabbed to death in their Brooklyn apartment along with their mother Li Qiaozhen, 37, on Oct. 26, 2013. Their father Zhuo Yilin was at work in a restaurant in Long Island at the time of the murders. (Courtesy of Zhuo family)

NEW YORK—Relatives of the mother and four children who were stabbed to death in their Sunset Park apartment on Oct. 26 will arrive in New York on Nov. 6, from Mainland China.

The mother, older brother, and older sister of 29-year-old Li Qiaozhen applied for visas at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou on Nov. 4, and booked their flights to New York City as soon as they received them.

Zhuo Yilin, the husband and father of the victims, was at work in a restaurant in Long Island at the time of the murders. His mother and little sister have also applied for U.S. visas, and are expected to fly from Fuzhou some time later in the week.

Mingdong Chen, 25, an illegal immigrant, and cousin of the father of the murdered children, was found on the scene shortly after the killings of Li Qiaozhen, 37, and her children, Linda Zhuo, 9; Amy Zhuo, 7; Kevin Zhuo, 5; and 18-month-old William Zhuo.

Chen’s bare feet were covered with blood. Police said he had stabbed and slashed the necks and torsos of the victims, but had attempted to suffocate the youngest child before killing the child with a knife.

“It’s a scene you’ll never forget,” said Chief of Department Philip Banks III.

Chen, who had been staying with the family in their apartment for 10 days, according to court documents, was indicted Friday, Nov. 1.

He was charged with five counts of murder in the first degree, five counts of murder in the second degree, and charges related to the assault on two police officers serving as translators while he was being interviewed in the 66th Precinct Station House in Brooklyn, early in the morning on Oct. 27.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/345889-murdered-brooklyn-familys-relatives-to-arrive-from-china/