By Tien-Shun Lee
A Bayside father and son were slashed in their home Tuesday night after two men wielding a knife and a machete rang their doorbell and asked for “Chris,” their wife and mother said.
After the family fought off the armed intruders, the men fled, leaving the father and son with slash wounds. The two were taken to New York Hospital Medical Center Queens in Flushing, where they were listed in stable condition, police said.
Mrs. Fendt, who declined to give her first name, said her husband, two sons and two daughters had all just gone to bed when the men rang the doorbell of their two-story home at 211th Street near 28th Ave. at around 9:30 p.m.
When one of Fendt’s sons answered the door, he saw two men, who were described by the Breaking News Network as a 6-foot, 175-pound black man in his late teens wearing blue jeans and a doo rag and a black man wearing a jean jacket and sweat pants. BNN is a service that monitors and reports activity on police and fire department radios.
One of the men asked for “Chris,” which is the name of one Fendt’s sons, but Fendt said she was sure that he was not one of her son’s friends because her son does not have any friends who are black. The family is white.
After answering the door, Fendt’s son pushed one of the men, who was holding a machete, out the door and called to the rest of the family for help, said Fendt.
The other man, who was holding a shorter knife, headed up the stairs, said Fendt, who had been coming down the stairs when her son opened the door.
Fendt said she pushed the man down the stairs. A fight then ensued in the dining room of the house between the knife-wielding man and Fendt, her two sons and her husband.
One of Fendt’s sons was stabbed in the stomach and her husband was slashed under the eye and bitten in the arm during the struggle before the family members managed to push the intruder out the door, said Fendt.
Fendt’s two daughters were upstairs using their cell phones to call the police during the struggle, she said.
Police arrived at the scene shortly afterwards and were investigating the incident late Tuesday night. No arrests had been made by Wednesday morning, police said.
Fendt’s husband, 42, and son, 15, were taken in an ambulance to NYHQ, said police. They were in stable condition Tuesday night, said Fendt.
A police officer at the scene identified Fendt’s husband as a building contractor in Harlem.
Fendt said she did not see any vehicles that may have belonged to the perpetrators.
Reach reporter Tien-Shun Lee by e-mail at Timesledger@aol.com, or call 718-229-0300, Ext. 155.
