Teenager decapitates mom's boyfriend in knife attack at New York home

Rocco Parascandola and Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News on Oct 7, 2025

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NEW YORK — A troubled teenager lopped off the head of his mother’s boyfriend in a bloody knife attack inside the bathroom of their Staten Island home Monday afternoon, police said.

“I did something bad,” the teen told his 16-year-old sister after she came home from school to the bloody scene about 4:20 p.m. Monday, according to sources. “Go to your room.”

The suspect was covered in blood and there were trails of blood throughout the home on Cary Avenue near North Burgher Avenue in West Brighton, the sources said.

The sister found her mother’s 45-year-old boyfriend stabbed multiple times in the head and neck in the bathtub.

The man’s head was severed in the ruthless rampage a knife was still sticking out of his neck, the sources said.

The suspect’s sister ran outside and called their 39-year-old mother, who called 911.

When cops arrived, the suspect came outside calmly to surrender with his hands raised in the air, the sources said.

EMS pronounced the victim dead at the scene. His identity was withheld as cops search for family members.

The teen was on various medications and was emotionally disturbed, police sources said. Cops had been called to the home in the past for domestic disturbances, the sources said.

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