An emotionally disturbed Guyanese man allegedly stabbed his mother to death last night in Brooklyn, New York.
The New York Daily News reported today that the man was arrested on Thursday for stabbing his mother to death in their Brooklyn apartment. The report said that Alfonette Scrader, 47, was found stabbed several times inside her second-floor apartment on St. Paul’s Place in Flatbush around 11 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Police arrested her 26-year-old son at the scene. His name was not immediately released.
Neighbours reported that they heard loud shouting and banging shortly before the fatal attack.
“The boy was banging, banging, banging,” Johanna Mary, 38 told the Daily News. “After a lot of yelling, I heard nothing. I look out my door again and there were several police in the hallway.”
She then opened her door and saw a gruesome scene.
“I saw a lot of blood on the floor spread around the hallway,” Mary, said, according to the report.
Other residents said Scrader had long struggled with her son. Police sources said he appears to suffer from a mental disorder.
“She couldn’t control what her kid was doing and I think that was one of the problems,” family friend Desiree Chapman told the Daily News. “She’s a wonderful person – a nice person, in-and-out.”
It was the second Brooklyn slaying in two days in which a son was arrested for killing his mother.
Atiba Brown, 23, was charged on Wednesday with fatally striking his 45-year-old mother, Christiana Jones, with a brick in their Brownsville apartment, the report said.
