Queens home invasion leaves 3 people stabbed as NYPD officers shoot knife-wielding woman, report says

A case of suspected burglary in New York City's Queens borough became violent towards the end of last Friday when three individuals were left with stab wounds while the attacker armed with a knife was critically injured following the shooting by the police, according to a report by the New York Post.

According to the outlet citing unnamed sources, the incident happened around 10 p.m. on Friday, October 23rd, on 149th Street in Jamaica, Queens. A woman broke into a house in what was suspected to be a home invasion and attacked the three persons with a knife before being shot by the police.

The three victims received treatment at Jamaica Hospital for their stab wounds. The suspect is in critical condition following the shooting by the police.


The identities of all those involved and any detailed account of how events progressed before the violence broke out were yet to be revealed by the authorities. It was still not clear how exactly the suspected incident of burglary had occurred, who the suspect was, and why the police decided to shoot.

Neighbours describe shock after late-night violence

The attack unsettled residents of the normally quiet residential street, where emergency vehicles and police activity disrupted the neighbourhood late Friday.

According to the New York Post, a 60-year-old woman who lived in the area for 30 years, known as Rosie, had never seen anything like this before. She further narrated that she had problems coming back to her home after visiting her husband in a Long Island hospital due to the fact that police had cordoned off the area.

The attack takes place in the midst of other violent incidents involving knives and police intervention that have occurred in Queens. According to an NBC New York report published on October 10, police responding to a slashing attack in Edgemere found themselves facing a man barricaded in his apartment. Two people were admitted to hospital and the police said that an officer fired a gun while trying to gain entry into the apartment. No one was injured by the gunfire.

The incidents are separate, and the available reporting does not establish any connection between them.