Authorities say Wednesday afternoon just before 2, Ye attacked a mother and her 2 small children inside a room in an apartment building in Sunset Park.
Police arrested a man in connection to the attack -- identified as 47-year-old Liyong Ye -- who was found with blood all over his body."Did you cry when you heard? Yes of course there's babies involved," Hussey said.
"In our community, Sunset Park community you don't see this kind of violence at all," NYS Assemblyman Lester Chang said."What escalated to that level, beyond your morality, beyond that to cross that line, to be violent. That's beyond me."A mother is dead after her two children are in critical condition after a shocking hammer attack in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. FOX 5 NY's Stephanie Bertini has the story.
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