Children stabbed inside a NYC elevator
Posted: Jun 3, 2014 9:42 PM EDT | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 3:57 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- Police are searching for the man who stabbed two children in an elevator in Brooklyn.
A 6-year-old boy was killed and a 7-year-old is in critical condition.
The two were attacked on Sunday when they went inside a building to get ice cream.
The boys' father is devastated by his loss.
"He's my pride and joy, he's my life, my rock that I lived for, my backbone, and he took my light away from me," said the victim's father Nicholas Avitto.
The suspect is described as a heavyset man in his 20s.He dropped the knife outside the building right after he stabbed the children.