Four family members, including two children, were stabbed to death at a home in Queens early Sunday morning, the police said.
Two officers who responded to the location, 467 Beach 22nd Street in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, saw a man leaving with luggage, Chief Maddrey said.
When they stopped him, the man stabbed one officer in the head and the other in the neck with a steak knife before one of the officers shot him.
The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The wounds of the officers were not life threatening, Chief Maddrey said at the news conference, which was in front of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where they were being treated.
Persons:
Jeffrey Maddrey, Maddrey
Organizations:
Queens, New York Police Department, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Locations:
Rockaway, Jamaica