Search continues for man who randomly stabbed children in elevator in Brooklyn

New York police are looking for a man who they say randomly stabbed two children, a six-year-old boy to death and left a seven-year-old girl in critical condition, in Brooklyn on Sunday night. 

Man Randomly Stabbed Children

The children were in an elevator at an apartment block in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood and heading out for an icy when they were attacked at 5.50 pm on Sunday, police said.

The man, who is believed to be heavyset and in his 20s, stabbed the children in their torsos after telling them to ‘shut up’, a police source told the New York Daily News.

The body of the little boy, Prince Joshua Avitto, known as ‘P.J.’ to his family, was found in the elevator in the Boulevard housing development on Schenck Avenue near Stanley Avenue.