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Neighbor describes horrific scene after 2 kids, mom stabbed in Mayfair section of Philadelphia

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A triple stabbing within the Mayfair part of Philadelphia left a mom and her two sons critically injured.

It was proper round 2 p.m. Sunday when a neighbor, who requested to not be recognized, says she noticed a 10-year-old boy – who lives two doorways down – yelling frantically exterior his home.

“Then the second child got here out lined in blood. He had a gash all throughout the highest of his head,” the neighbor mentioned.

The neighbor rapidly referred to as 911, rushed the kids inside her residence, then went to test on their mom.

Simply then, she says she noticed the suspect leaving the house on the 3200 block of Knorr Road.

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What she noticed after coming into the house was nothing wanting horrific.

“I could not precisely see the place her wounds have been,” she says, “She had blood on her pants, her arms, in every single place. After which we needed to watch for the ambulance. She collapsed on the steps.”

In the meantime, the lady who helped save her neighbor’s youngsters says she is simply pleased she was there when these youngsters have been calling for assist.

“I do not know if they’d have survived one other stab wound. So, I used to be prepared to combat for these youngsters,” she mentioned. “No person deserves that in any respect what they went by.”
The 2 boys who have been slashed are anticipated to be okay, not less than bodily.

The mom, nevertheless, stays hospitalized in important situation.

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The suspect, who we’re advised is an acquaintance of the sufferer, has since turned himself in. His title has not been launched.

And that was only one case throughout what turned out to be a violent weekend in Philadelphia.

Circumstances embrace a double murder in West Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon.

Three younger males have been discovered shot to loss of life on Saturday evening in West Oak Lane.

And a 26-year-old man was discovered shot to loss of life on the 5900 block of N. Norwood Road on Sunday night.

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