NEW YORK (AP) - Police say a 27-year-old man has been arrested for fatally stabbing his father and attacking his mother inside an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
It happened around 6 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say the couple was found with stab wounds to the chest and torso inside an eighth-floor apartment at 784 Columbus Ave. at West 97th Street.
The father, 71-year-old Darlington Powe, was pronounced dead at the scene. The 56-year-old mother was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
Police say the son, Anthony Powe, was arrested on murder and assault charges. It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer.
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