Overview
- Police say the stabbing, reported around 2:30 a.m. Sunday on 86th Avenue in Richmond Hill, happened inside an apartment.
- Officers found a 41-year-old man with a chest wound and a 32-year-old woman with an arm slash, and both were taken to Jamaica Hospital where he died and she stabilized.
- The NYPD is searching for a man seen running from the building and has identified him as a person of interest.
- Sources say the attacker knocked on the door, slashed the woman when she opened it, then fatally stabbed the man before fleeing.
- No arrests have been announced as detectives work to confirm motive and the victims’ relationship, with local precinct data showing murders up year to date.