EAST NEW YORK (WABC) --
The manhunt continues Monday for a man police say stabbed two children - one of them fatally - inside an elevator at an apartment building in Brooklyn.The incident happened just before 6 p.m. Sunday in a housing development on Schenck Avenue near Stanley Avenue in East New York. The incident happened just blocks away from where 18-year-old Tanya Copeland was fatally stabbed on Friday night, leaving area residents on edge.
Relatives say 6-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto, known as PJ, and 7-year-old Mikayala Capers were off to get ice cream on a warm spring evening when they were attacked by a knife-wielding killer while riding the elevator down to the building lobby.
Avitto was stabbed multiple times and rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Capers was stabbed more than a dozen times but survived, and she is recovering after undergoing surgery.
The suspect, who took off on foot, reportedly told the children to shut up before stabbing them. The only description of the man is that he is heavyset and in his 30s. more
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