8-year-old dead in Queens; police fatally shoot knife-wielding suspect: NYPD

JAMAICA, Queens (PIX11) – An NYPD officer fatally shot a knife-wielding suspect at a Queens apartment building where an 8-year-old boy was killed Thursday, police said.

The officer shot the suspect inside an apartment at 94th Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica around 5:15 p.m., according to the NYPD.

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Police responded to the fifth-floor apartment and saw the male suspect allegedly holding a knife to his father’s throat, according to NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell.