Detectives from the 109th Precinct in Flushing have reviewed surveillance video from an apartment building where a 68-year-old woman was stabbed repeatedly during a home invasion on Sunday evening and came up with images of the two suspects.
The alleged burglars entered the building on Roosevelt Avenue between Parsons Boulevard and 147th Street. They made their way up to the victim’s floor and were checking each front door along her hallway in the hopes of finding an unlocked unit they could rob at around 5:20 p.m.
Investigators determined that when the senior left her apartment to throw out her trash in the compactor room down the hall, the perpetrators slipped into her home and attempted to remove her personal property when they suddenly heard the victim returning. They approached her in the hallway, stabbed her multiple times in her body, pushed her inside her apartment, and fled the scene empty-handed, police said.
EMS responded to the location and rushed the wounded woman to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in Flushing, where she was listed in stable condition. There have been no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing.
The NYPD released surveillance images of the alleged home invaders on Wednesday and described one as wearing a multi-colored winter jacket over a white hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and white sneakers. His accomplice wore a black hooded bubble jacket, black pants, and dark sneakers.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
Through Feb. 2, the 109th Precinct has reported 40 felony assaults so far in 2025, one fewer than the 41 reported at the same point last year, a decrease of 2.4%, according to the most recent CompStat report. Burglaries are on the rise in the precinct, with 56 reported so far this year, a dozen more than the 44 reported at the same point in 2024, an increase of 27.3%, according to CompStat.
