9-year-old Boy Stabbed To Death in Harlem

Last night, 9-year-old Anthony Maldonado was stabbed to death in Harlem. The boy was visiting family and was stabbed in the  chest and later died. The incident happened at 75 La Salle Street, where Anthony’s relatives lived.

About 3:30 a.m., fourth-grader Anthony Maldonado knocked on the door of his uncle’s room in the Grant Houses and collapsed with a chest wound.

“Uncle, uncle, I’ve been stabbed,” he said.

Paramedics rushed the boy to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital but he couldn’t be saved. His grief-stricken mother identified his body there about 8 a.m.

The NYPD said no arrests have been made, but police sources said a man in his 20s was being questioned at the 26th Precinct stationhouse.

“This person is probably not going to be going home tonight,” the source said.

Cops were searching elevator shafts and Dumpsters in the housing project last night, apparently looking for the murder weapon.

Anthony had been visiting his grandfather for the holidays.

“He was a nice boy,” the uncle said.