A family dispute in Bay Ridge left a mother dead and her husband and child hospitalized early Tuesday morning in what police describe as a murder and attempted suicide.
Authorities report responding to the call about the incident in a building on Marine Avenue near the corner of 95th Street at 2:21 am. A grisly scene greeted them — a 46-year-old woman on the ground with a stab wound to the neck, a 52-year-old man with a gouged stomach, and a 14-year-old boy with a slashed forearm.
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene shortly afterward and pronounced Gyltene Rugova dead at the scene, and transported the teen and his father to Lutheran Medical Center in stable condition.
Police have taken the father into custody and charged him with second degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon, assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
A 68th Precinct source said that the father and late mother had gotten into an argument that turned deadly, with the man grabbing a knife and fatally stabbing his wife — before turning the blade on himself. The 14-year-old was reportedly sleeping in an adjoining room with his two siblings when he awoke and attempted to restrain his father, sustaining the wound to his arm during the struggle.
The two other children were not physically harmed in the tragedy.
The father’s attorney could not be reached for comment by press time.
