Police said Monday they were searching for a suspect in the fatal stabbings of three people, including a 5-year-old child, in a Bronx apartment building early Sunday.
Responding to a 911 call around 6:40 a.m. Sunday, officers found Jonathan Rivera, 38, unresponsive and bleeding from multiple stab wounds in the hallway of a building on East 136th Street in Mott Haven.
As the officers searched the area, they forced their way into a nearby apartment on the first floor. There, they discovered 5-year-old Kayden Rivera unresponsive and with multiple stab wounds on an air mattress and 33-year-old Hanoi Peralta unresponsive and with multiple stab wounds in a bedroom, according to police.
All three victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators ruled the deaths as homicides.
As of Monday morning, police were still not sure how the victims were related, but said they all lived in the same first-floor apartment.
The NYPD had no information about a potential suspect.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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