Mom Dead, 2 Children Injured In 'Horrific' Bloody Hammer Attack: NYPD

SUNSET PARK, NY — A Brooklyn roommate's attack left behind two critically injured kids, a fatally wounded mom and a bloody hammer, police said Wednesday.

The violent roommate attacked the young family — the mom was 43 and the kids are 3 and 5 — in the three-bedroom apartment they shared on 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues about 2:50 p.m., according to Chief of Patrol John Chell.

“They were attacked [with] a hammer,” Chell said. "It’s brutal."

Medics rushed the small family from their second-floor home — they were attacked in their own bedroom — to an area hospital where the mom later died, police said.

The suspect, since arrested, was found bloody with a hammer, Chell said. He seems to have been sharing a bedroom with his nine-year-old son.

Police have yet to release names, but described the woman killed as a married mother of two.

"On behalf of NYC," Chell said, "Our hearts go out to this family”

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