Grandma, mother, 2 children fatally stabbed in Brooklyn, relative in custody: NYPD

NEW YORK — Four members of a Brooklyn family — including two little children — were found stabbed to death in their Bensonhurst apartment, police said Saturday.

A relative, believed to be the uncle of the two children, was in custody and being questioned for the grisly multiple murders, cops said.

The suspect left his mother dead in a pool of blood in the living room, wrapped his slain sister-in-law in a sheet and stuffed the bodies of the two children in laundry bags in a closet before he fled, police said.

The bloody scene was discovered by the suspect’s brother, the father of the two children, who returned home to the first-floor apartment in the six-story building on West 8th Street near Avenue P at about 10:15 p.m. Friday.

As he reached the apartment door, he told police he encountered his sibling, scratched and covered in blood, in the building hallway.

When he asked his brother where their mother was, the suspect mumbled something like “Go find her,” before he left the building, cops said.

He went into the apartment and found his mother, 56-year-old Fayzieva Mavlyuda, dead from multiple stab wounds to the neck.

The son called 911 to report his mother’s death and also reported that he could not find his wife and two children, who should have been home.

Responding police officers found his wife, 27-year-old Maftuna Khakimova, stabbed to death in a bedroom, wrapped in a sheet. The bodies of 5-year-old Kamila Shavkatova and her brother, 4-year-old Timur, were found in the closet of another bedroom, stuffed in laundry bags.

All of the victims had been stabbed, police said.

After the discovery, the man could be seen outside the building, sobbing as other relatives tried to comfort him, neighbors said.

“There was a lot of people, family members outside here last night. I recognized some of the family members,” fifth-floor resident Jennifer Ponzi told the Daily News Saturday.

“The father was outside crying a lot. His whole world is destroyed, he lost his mother, his wife, and kids,” she said.

While cops were at the scene, the brother allegedly responsible for the stabbing spree returned home and was taken into custody. Criminal charges were pending.

Investigators said they did not immediately find the murder weapon and believe the suspect may have ditched it after he left the home.

Detectives think the killing was part of an ongoing domestic dispute, cops said.

Residents said the building is home to many Uzbeki, Russian and Georgian families.

Neighbors watching the father weeping outside and cops setting up the crime scene said they were rattled by the unhinged violence.

“After we got home, they put up yellow tape,” resident Juan Perez said. “We thought it was just maybe a passing of an elderly woman that we always saw out front, but then we got word of what it really was.

“You don’t ever want to hear that,” Perez, 35, said about the killing spree. “No one deserves that. I have kids, and you don’t want to hear that happen to kids.”

The violent crime marked the second time this month that cops were called to a grisly scene where someone fatally stabbed his relatives.

On July 4, cops were forced to shoot and kill a 20-year-old Queens man who fatally stabbed his 8-year-old stepbrother. When cops arrived, the man had been holding a knife to his father’s neck, police said. The man later died of his wounds, according to police.