Overview
- Police responded around 1:37 p.m. to a 911 report of an assault at 108-33 157th Street in Jamaica, Queens.
- NYPD said the boy was found with blood on his chest and what officers believed were stab wounds, and the 28-year-old mother had lacerations on her wrists outside the home.
- Doctors at Jamaica Hospital reported no visible stabbing injuries on the child and said he appeared to be covered in his mother's blood.
- Police said clinicians raised the possibility that the child ingested something fatal, and investigators are evaluating a potential murder–suicide scenario.
- Both were taken to Jamaica Hospital, where the child was pronounced dead and the woman was reported in stable condition, as the mother remains in custody as a suspect.