Brooklyn Man Critically Injured After Stabbing Four Nieces in Brutal Meat Cleaver Attack
Four young girls, aged 8 to 16, are hospitalized with serious injuries but expected to survive, as police investigate the suspect's mental health and motive.
- An 11-year-old girl called 911 after locking herself in a room, reporting that her uncle had stabbed her and her siblings in a Bensonhurst apartment.
- Responding NYPD officers forcibly entered the apartment, encountering the suspect, Lun Chang Chen, holding a blood-covered meat cleaver.
- Officers shot Chen after he refused to drop the weapon and advanced toward them; he is in critical condition at Maimonides Medical Center.
- The four victims, sisters aged 8, 11, 13, and 16, sustained serious slash and stab wounds but are expected to recover after receiving treatment.
- Authorities are investigating the motive for the attack, noting Chen's history of mental illness and the absence of prior domestic violence reports at the residence.