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Mother Slits Kids Throats In Street Then Surrenders At Police Station
A mom is accused of slitting the throats of her two young children with a razor and leaving them bleeding on a Bronx street corner according to NY Daily News reports.
Shanice Martin allegedly slashed the necks of her two children — a 2-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy — around 8:20 p.m. Saturday on a street corner cops said. Panicked pedestrians saw the wounded children and flagged down a passing police cruiser, which rushed them to Lincoln Hospital. The children’s throats were cut “from ear to ear” police sources said.
Her kids are expected to survive.
Covered in blood, Martin, 24, showed up a few minutes after the attack two blocks away at the 42nd Precinct stationhouse, where she handed them the razor she used and surrendered.
“Go ahead and arrest me,” the woman said as she handed the blood-soaked blade over, sources said.
Cops charged her with assault, child abandoment, endangering the welfare of a child, and weapon possession. She is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
Shanice Martin’s brother Travone Lango said his sister was estranged from the family and may have just “snapped.”
“She used to take medicine in the past. She never used to act like that. She was probably under a lot of pressure.”
Lango’s mother is taking care of Martin’s two wounded children, her brother said.
“I feel bad for them,” he said of his nephew and niece. “I hope they’re OK.”