New York police are searching for a suspect after a six-year-old boy was killed and a seven-year-old girl was critically wounded in a stabbing in New York's Brooklyn borough.
The boy, Prince Joshua Avitto, and his friend Mikayla Capers were on their way to get ice-cream on Sunday night when a man stabbed them in the elevator of a Brooklyn housing project.
Avitto died shortly after, while Capers was hospitalised in critical condition, reportedly with a pierced lung.
Police were sweeping the streets of Brooklyn on Monday in search of the suspect with the help of helicopters and K-9 units. However, the lack of video surveillance in the housing project made the investigation difficult.
"We cannot have a city where two ... children who went to get an ice-cream are stabbed, one killed and the other fighting for her life," New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Monday, The New York Times reported.
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"That is not the city of New York that we want to police. That is not the city of New York that we are responsible for."
