USA: Man stabs four people and is shot dead

Crime - USA: Man stabs four people and is shot dead

A man in New York is said to have stabbed four people to death with a steak knife, including an eleven-year-old girl and a twelve-year-old boy.

Investigators reported that the man was caught and killed by the police shortly afterwards. The 38-year-old is said to have committed the crimes in the borough of Queens and then set fire to a sofa.

Police received the call from a teenage girl related to the alleged perpetrator, it said. She had called for help and said her cousin was killing family members, the New York Daily News reported.

When the police arrived, the man had punched one investigator in the face and stabbed another between the neck and chest. A 28-year-old police officer then shot him. Both investigators are in hospital and their lives are not in danger.

The crime occurred in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, south of John F. Kennedy Airport - about an hour's drive from downtown Manhattan.

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1. Despite the efforts of the government and law enforcement agencies to reduce criminality in the USA, incidents like the knife attack in New York, where a man allegedly killed four individuals including children, continue to pose a significant concern.
2. The senseless act of violence in New York, involving a 38-year-old individual stabbing four people and attacking two police officers, has once again highlighted the issue of knife attacks and criminality in the USA, especially amongst children.
3. In the aftermath of the incident in New York, where a man tragically killed four people, including children, and attacked police officers with a knife, the city's mayor reiterated the need for stricter gun control laws in the USA to curb the rising crime rates and violence against children.

Source: www.stern.de