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<\/div>\nThe hammer recovered from the scene of the attack by the police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A 43-year-old woman was killed and her two children were in critical condition after being repeatedly struck with a hammer in their Brooklyn apartment by a man who also lived there. According to New York Times<\/em>, the incident took place on Wednesday and the 47-year-old man was arrested. The police withheld the names of the attacker and the victims, but reveal the genders and ages of the children. One of them is a boy, aged 5, and another one a 3-year-old girl, said the outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n The woman and her two children were found inside a cramped room on the second floor of the building where they lived. This grim discovery was made just before 2pm by the cops who reached the spot in response to a 911 call.<\/p>\n The police officers first detained the man, his body covered in blood, as he was trying to exit the building, and later arrested him.<\/p>\n Quoting John Chell, the New York Police Department’s chief of patrol, New York Post<\/em><\/a> said that the victims lived in one room while the suspect and his 9-year-old son lived in another; and a single person lived in the third room of the modest three-bedroom apartment.<\/p>\n “The incident I’m about to describe to you is a horrific and senseless act of violence which took the life of a married mother of two,” Mr Chell told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I think I can speak for all New Yorkers when I say our community, all our prayers are with this family at this time,” he added.<\/p>\n Watch live as Chief of Patrol John Chell & NYPD executives brief the media on an incident that occurred in Brooklyn. https:\/\/t.co\/w2KTZJ09Qk<\/a><\/p>\n\n