The killer, believed to be a male family member, drove himself to Virginia after the bloody Friday homicides.
Brigitte Stelzer for the nypost
A courageous Queens mother threw herself over her disabled stepdaughter in a determined, however doomed, effort to avoid wasting the youthful lady from a rampaging nephew, who was arrested Saturday for fatally stabbing each girls and a second aunt, sources stated.
The accused killer was smoking weed within the kitchen of the 182nd Road dwelling in Queens when he acquired into an argument with one of many girls and allegedly snapped, sources instructed The Publish.
Throughout the assault, Hyacinth Brown-Johnson, 65, threw herself over her bedridden step-daughter, Patrice Johnson, in a final ditch effort to guard the disabled 26-year-old, however each have been in the end killed.
“I heard they discovered Hyacinth hovering over Patrice in her bed room like she was defending her. Hyacinth had numerous defensive wounds. She was combating for Patrice and herself,” a household buddy instructed The Publish. “It’s coronary heart wrenching. It’s like placing a dagger within the coronary heart.”
Brown-Johnson’s daughter, Latoya Gordon, 47, was additionally discovered lifeless within the dwelling alongside her mom and Johnson. They have been found by Brown-Johnson’s son and a house well being support, authorities stated.
The constructing’s landlord, Patrick Ogbedor, 62, instructed The Publish he heard a scuffle happen between 2:30 a.m. and three:30 a.m. earlier than he heard a automobile drive away.
The suspect then stole Hyacinth’s 2004 Toyota Sienna and drove to Virginia after the bloody Friday homicides in Springfield Gardens, sources added.
Video recovered by police appeared to point out the automobile dashing simply earlier than 5 a.m. Saturday. With the surveillance footage in hand, the NYPD put out an alert on the stolen automobile.
Virginia state police later noticed the Toyota in Prince George. The automobile had run out of gasoline, and approaching officers discovered the motive force behind the wheel, lined in blood and with wounds on his fingers, sources stated.
NYPD officers investigating the scene of the murders in Queens on November 19, 2022.
The victims have been found within the dwelling by Brown-Johnson’s son and a house well being support.
A member of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit getting into the house.
The motive force later allegedly incriminated himself, describing how he’d attacked every of the ladies, the supply added.
He was taken to a hospital and is awaiting extradition, the supply stated.
The victims’ dwelling was surrounded by police tape early Saturday, with an NYPD patrol automobile sitting out entrance.
An NYPD spokeswoman couldn't instantly affirm the main points of the arrest, saying “costs have been pending.”
Peter Wolf, who had been Patrice Johnson’s guardian since 2005, stated that she had been disabled since start and unable to talk or gown herself.
Patrice Johnson’s organic mom died of lupus when her daughter was a baby, and Patrice’s father, Milton Johnson, later married Hyacinth — who pledged to look after the lady and never put her in a nursing dwelling, the household buddy stated.
“She actually liked this youngster,” the buddy stated of Hyacinth.
A neighbor stated Hyacinth lived within the Queens condo for not less than 15 years earlier than her daughter and son just lately moved in together with her.
Up till then, the neighbor stated he thought Hyacinth lived alone as a result of she was the one one he noticed going to and from the condo.
“I've not seen the [step-daughter] for years now. I didn’t suppose she was nonetheless there,” the neighbor stated. “I don’t even wish to go exterior. I don’t wish to see the home. It's so unhappy.”
Further reporting by Dean Balsamini and Valentina Jaramillo
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