*Event date: 2025-04-06*
Police in New York shot a suspect after four children were stabbed in a Brooklyn home, ending a violent domestic attack that officers said began with a 911 call from one of the victims.
NBC News reported that police were called to 1671 84th St. in Bensonhurst at about 10:15 a.m. after an 11-year-old caller said she and her siblings had been stabbed by their uncle. Officers entered the residence and heard screams before kicking down a door and finding a man standing near the entrance holding a large meat cleaver covered in blood. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the man refused repeated orders to drop the weapon and advanced toward officers, prompting two officers to fire seven rounds in total.
The suspect was identified as Long Qian Chen, 49, and was taken to hospital in critical condition. The four victims were girls ages 8, 11, 13 and 16. Police said they all suffered serious slash and stab wounds but were expected to survive. An uninjured boy was also in the home and later went to a neighbor’s house to ask them to call 911, adding another layer to what police described as a fast-moving domestic emergency.
The case is disturbing not only because of the injuries but because of the sequence: a child recognizing danger, contacting police, and then officers confronting an armed suspect in a residence. The source says technicians helped locate the address when the 11-year-old caller could not give it. That detail shows how quickly the response had to adapt in order to reach the home.
Police said they believed Chen was related to the victims, though the exact relationship was still under investigation. They also said he had a history of mental illness, citing his family. The motive remained unknown in the report, and that uncertainty matters because it prevents any easy explanation for the attack.
The arrest and charges are part of the immediate legal aftermath. Chen was charged with attempted murder, assault, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of menacing a police officer. He had not yet been arraigned because he remained hospitalized. Those facts show the case will continue in court even as the victims recover.
The report also notes that there were no previous domestic violence incidents at the home, according to Tisch. That does not make the violence any less severe, but it does suggest the attack was not preceded by a documented pattern of police intervention at the address.
In practical terms, the story is about a domestic scene that turned into an emergency police shooting and a serious child injury case within minutes. The children survived, the suspect was taken to hospital, and investigators were left to piece together how the attack began and why.
What is clear from the packet is that a child’s 911 call helped bring officers to the scene in time to stop the assault, and that four children in the apartment were left with serious wounds.
