“They took my little boy away from me,” said the father of Prince Joshua (PJ) Avitto. Young PJ was fatally stabbed in a Brooklyn elevator, along with his friend, 7-year-old Mikayla Capers who was able to survive the viscous attack albeit not unharmed. Hit the jump for the gritty details.
“This is a particularly heinous crime,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. “Let’s face it, two young children in an elevator with no place to escape, nothing at all. Some character gets on and just starts stabbing you. They have every right to be concerned.”
P.J.’s uncle, Scott Avitto, said he and Mikayla “were like brother and sister.”
“They’d all play together, everybody watched them together. Someone took a child’s life away.”
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