Brooklyn Stabbing Leaves Four Young Girls Injured, Suspect Shot by Police

An 11-year-old's heroic 911 call and swift police action helped save four sisters after their uncle attacked them with a meat cleaver in Bensonhurst.

Four girls, aged 8 to 16, suffered serious stab wounds in a Sunday morning attack in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, but are expected to survive.
The suspect, 49-year-old Longqian Chen, was critically injured after being shot by NYPD officers when he refused to drop a blood-covered meat cleaver and advanced toward them.
An 11-year-old victim hid in a room to call 911, enabling police to locate the address using phone-tracking technology, while an uninjured boy sought help from a neighbor.
Two knives, including a meat cleaver and a bloody kitchen knife, were recovered from the scene; the children's mother was not home during the attack.
The NYPD is investigating the motive, noting the suspect's history of mental illness but no prior reported domestic violence incidents at the residence.