Two Women Killed in Park Slope Stabbing as Brooklyn Sees Wave of Stabbings Within Nine Hours

Two women, aged 59 and 23, were found stabbed in a Park Slope apartment building on Saturday. According to the New York Post, NYPD officers responded around 8 p.m. to a call for an assaulted woman at 386 2nd Street.

Upon their arrival, they first discovered the 59-year-old woman unconscious and unresponsive with multiple stab wounds, and later found a 23-year-old woman in the same condition, who had also been stabbed to death.

Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Following the incident, resident Fred Fassberger described the street as a "very safe street, very quiet."

"There was a murder here a while ago, and we had a community meeting at the church at the time. That was the magnitude of an incident like that, that the community wanted to get together and know what was going on," he added.

The victim's names, the identity of the killer, and the motive have not been released by authorities.

Meanwhile, social media users were left shocked by the murders.

"Terrible. Park Slope is usually so quiet. Heartbreaking for the community," one user wrote.

“Life in the US is becoming scary these days. We having a serious institutional failure I must say the least,” another user stated.

A third user commented, “well yeah, sounds exactly like the place you SHOULD be finding dead bodies.”

Another X user said, “So many broad daylight shootings and stabbings, it's such a throwback. My childhood!”

A similar incident occurred at the same building on 2nd Street in 2024, when a 34-year-old woman, Olga Kirshenbaum, and a 34-year-old man, Jason Jackson, were found dead from gunshot wounds to the head.

The gun was found near the man, who reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Park Slope killings were not isolated — several other stabbing incidents occurred across Brooklyn within a nine-hour window spanning Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

The first incident occurred at approximately 8:10 p.m. on May 27 at Seaview Avenue and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie, where a woman stabbed 34-year-old Isaiah Freeman in the chest. The two reportedly got into an argument before the victim from East 102nd Street in Brooklyn was stabbed.

Freeman was taken to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital, where he died.

Subsequently, at about 4:55 a.m. on May 28, a 35-year-old man was stabbed to death, while another 36-year-old man was critically injured in Sunset Park.

The 35-year-old was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead — the 36-year-old was listed in stable condition.

A fourth stabbing occurred at approximately 11:10 p.m. on May 29 at 3105 Avenue D in Little Haiti — authorities found a 66-year-old man with stab wounds to the neck and another man with stab wounds to the left leg and lower back. Both were taken to Kings County Hospital, where the 66-year-old died and the other remained in stable condition.

The victims were taken to Kings County Hospital, where the former passed away while the latter was listed in stable condition.