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Man Decapitates 5-Year-Old Sister in Front of Officer
Sunday, March 29, 2009, in Milton, Mass. (AP)
AP via YellowBrix
March 30, 2009
MILTON, MA – A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then headed toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot and killed him amid what their chief described as “a killing field.”
There was no clear motive for the attack Saturday in a Boston suburb . But there was no doubt of the carnage wrought by 23-year- old Kerby Revelus in the two-family home his sisters shared with their parents and grandmother.
Bianca was killed as a cake for her fifth birthday sat on the kitchen table. It was not immediately clear when she turned 5. Sarafina dialed 911 and watched police shoot her brother as her elder sister, Samantha, lay dead on the floor.
Sarafina was hospitalized Sunday with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and her leg.
“In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think that a human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his own family is unbelievable,” Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. said.
The attack came hours after Revelus had been in a fistfight with a man living next door, Wells said.
“Blows were exchanged,” he said. " He had been agitated in the hours that followed that."
Investigators said they think Revelus targeted Samantha, a senior at Milton High School, and fatally stabbed her with a household knife while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement. The children’s parents, whose identities weren’t immediately revealed, were away; their mother is a nurse at a Boston hospital, Wells said.
Sarafina, a student at the Tucker Elementary School, just behind the house, called 911 just before 5 p.m. An officer on patrol in the neighborhood arrived within a minute, Wells said, and could hear an altercation inside as he reached the second floor. The 911 operator tried to persuade Sarafina to open the door, but when she didn’t the officer broke through.
“As the officer entered the door, (Revelus) decapitated (Bianca) in front of him,” Wells said. “He actually walked into a killing field. He walked into such carnage, as far as the atrocity of it, I’ve never seen it.”
Within moments, four officers were inside and two of them shot Revelus as he tried to get to Sarafina, Wells said. Revelus fell, still clutching the knife.
Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge, Wells said, but the details will not be released until courts open today.
A neighbor, Norm Walsh, said the family had lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years . They were of Haitian descent, as are many residents in the neighborhood, where Creole is spoken alongside English.
“The family is a solid family. Both parents worked; good kids. Completely makes no sense,” he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/brother-to-be-buried-with-sisters-after-killing-them-20090331-9hgu.html
I really feel bad for that officer, having to witness that had to be horrible.
Sunday, March 29, 2009, in Milton, Mass. (AP)
AP via YellowBrix
March 30, 2009
MILTON, MA – A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then headed toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot and killed him amid what their chief described as “a killing field.”
There was no clear motive for the attack Saturday in a Boston suburb . But there was no doubt of the carnage wrought by 23-year- old Kerby Revelus in the two-family home his sisters shared with their parents and grandmother.
Bianca was killed as a cake for her fifth birthday sat on the kitchen table. It was not immediately clear when she turned 5. Sarafina dialed 911 and watched police shoot her brother as her elder sister, Samantha, lay dead on the floor.
Sarafina was hospitalized Sunday with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and her leg.
“In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think that a human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his own family is unbelievable,” Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. said.
The attack came hours after Revelus had been in a fistfight with a man living next door, Wells said.
“Blows were exchanged,” he said. " He had been agitated in the hours that followed that."
Investigators said they think Revelus targeted Samantha, a senior at Milton High School, and fatally stabbed her with a household knife while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement. The children’s parents, whose identities weren’t immediately revealed, were away; their mother is a nurse at a Boston hospital, Wells said.
Sarafina, a student at the Tucker Elementary School, just behind the house, called 911 just before 5 p.m. An officer on patrol in the neighborhood arrived within a minute, Wells said, and could hear an altercation inside as he reached the second floor. The 911 operator tried to persuade Sarafina to open the door, but when she didn’t the officer broke through.
“As the officer entered the door, (Revelus) decapitated (Bianca) in front of him,” Wells said. “He actually walked into a killing field. He walked into such carnage, as far as the atrocity of it, I’ve never seen it.”
Within moments, four officers were inside and two of them shot Revelus as he tried to get to Sarafina, Wells said. Revelus fell, still clutching the knife.
Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge, Wells said, but the details will not be released until courts open today.
A neighbor, Norm Walsh, said the family had lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years . They were of Haitian descent, as are many residents in the neighborhood, where Creole is spoken alongside English.
“The family is a solid family. Both parents worked; good kids. Completely makes no sense,” he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/brother-to-be-buried-with-sisters-after-killing-them-20090331-9hgu.html
I really feel bad for that officer, having to witness that had to be horrible.
