Elderly woman found fatally stabbed in apartment

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- An elderly woman was discovered dead in her Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment Friday morning.

The Medical Examiner's office says that the 85-year-old woman was stabbed several times in the neck and torso.

The woman was found by her brother on the floor at around 7:40 a.m. She was lying against a couch and had a towel around her head.

Doctors discovered a puncture wound to the back of her neck.

No arrests were made and there did not immediately appear to be a motive.

There was no sign of forced entry.

A spokeswoman says an investigation is underway as to how the body was reported to their office, and why this was initially thought to be not suspicious.

A full autopsy will be done on Saturday.

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Woman & toddler dead in Long Island apartment

Web producee by Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness NewsBAY SHORE, NY (WABC) -- Suffolk County Police are investigating the deaths of a woman and 2-year-old boy whose bodies were found in a basement apartment in North Bay Shore, Long Island.

It's a small anonymous house just like any other in this neighborhood.

But what happened at number 3 South Cardinal Court is enough to astonish even the hardest boiled cops.

"People at the morgue had tears in their eyes and they deal with death all the time," said Det. Lt. Gerard Pelkofsky, of the Suffolk County Police Department.

If a homicide can be routine, this was anything but.

Police arrived Saturday morning after the landlord found 21-year-old Shakeela Planter stabbed to death in her basement apartment.

When detectives entered, it got so much worse.

They discovered her Planter's 2-year-old son Jaiden in the freezer.

"The baby was viciously beaten, the baby was ultimately put in a plastic bag and then put in a freezer," Pelkofsky said, "Really affects your moral fiber when something like this happens."

Suffolk County detectives worked through the night, through the holiday, and Monday they announced an arrest.

24-year-old Jerry Lewis, Planter's ex-boyfriend, captured at his mother's house near Baltimore, Maryland.

On Sunday, December 18, police believe Lewis, who'd been living in the apartment babysitting Jaiden, had an argument with Planter, stabbed her to death, and also murdered her son.

Detectives believe he drove around in Planter's car for days before ditching it and taking a train out of state.

"It's a very sick person, how can you kill a baby? I think that is just sick," a neighbor said.

Monday, the details reverberated across this neighborhood, where few if any people actually knew Planter or her son.

Eyewitness News spoke to the woman who owns the house where they lived.

"He was an amazing child and that's all I need to say. And I love him. That's all I need to say," the owner said.

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Man found murdered in Brooklyn apartment

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Police in Brooklyn are looking for a killer after finding a man stabbed to death in his apartment.

The crime was discovered shortly after 8:00 Thursday morning at an apartment on Lefferts Avenue.

Investigators found the 53-year-old victim dead on the floor of a bedroom.

He had multiple stab wounds to his back and neck, investigators said.

His name has not been released.

No further details about a possible suspect or motive were immediately available.

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Two dead in Brooklyn apartment fire

  Eyewitness NewsBROOKLYN (WABC) -- Two people have died in a four-alarm fire in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

The fire, which began after 9:00 p.m., burned through 16 Covert Street and spread to other houses on either side of it.

A fire official described it as a "very active, fast moving fire."

During the course of the fire, a man fell from the third story window of 16 Covert Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

After the fire was out, another man was found on the top floor on the same building. He was also pronounced dead at the scene.

Names of the victims have not been released.

Two other people were treated for injuries.

Eyewitness News has learned that the Buildings Department had received complaints the building was illegally subdivided, but it's not known if that played any role in the fire or how fast it spread.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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