Cousin charged with stabbing mom, 4 kids in Brooklyn

Eyewitness News

SUNSET PARK (WABC) -- A Chinese immigrant did not enter a plea at a court appearance on Monday in the stabbing deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in Brooklyn.

Chen did not speak and did not enter a plea. His attorney, Danielle Eaddy, said her client had been injured while in police custody and appeared to have two bruises on his forehead. She did not immediately request a psychiatric hearing.

He was held without bail. His next court date was set for Friday, where a grand jury was expected to determine whether to indict him in the deaths of 37-year-old Qiao Zhen Li and her children, Linda, 9; Amy, 7; Kevin, 5; and 18-month-old William, all with the last name Zhuo.

"They were cut and butchered with a kitchen knife," said NYPD Chief of Department Captain Philip Banks III, "we have the knife, the perpetrator made statements eluding that he utilized this knife to commit this act."

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