This is just terrible.
The New York Post is reporting that Taj Gibson’s 6-year-old cousin, Prince Joshua Avitto, was tragically stabbed to death in an elevator in Brooklyn on Sunday.
Avitto along with seven year-old Mikayla Capers were both attacked by a knife wielding maniac.
Prince Joshua Avitto, 6, and Mikayla Capers, 7, were in an elevator together when they were hacked and stabbed multiple times in the random 6 p.m. attack, law-enforcement sources said.
“They were just coming outside to get some ice cream and ices,” said Inez Rodriguez, president of a tenants association. “This is the worst thing that I’ve ever seen in this neighborhood.”
The young boy was found dead in the elevator of the Boulevard Houses at 845 Schenck Ave. in East New York, sources said.
[…] The little girl, who was chased by the maniac out of the elevator on the first floor, collapsed in front of a nearby building, sources said. Mikayla was in surgery at Brookdale Hospital.
Police didn’t rule out the incident being related to a stabbing that took place two days after an 18-year-old girl died after being stabbed 32 times in the chest nearby in East New York, sources said.
Gibson posted this photo to his instagram page.
My prayers go out to the family.
Photo of the suspect.