Police arrest man in elevator stabbing of boy
Published 9:47 am Thursday, June 5, 2014
NEW YORK— A man believed to have stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and critically injured a 7-year-old girl in a knife attack in a public housing building elevator that didn’t have security cameras was arrested just minutes after the mayor and the police commissioner publicly identified him and appealed for help catching him, police said.
Daniel St. Hubert was picked up just after 8 p.m. on Wednesday in a residential neighborhood in Queens in connection with the death of Prince Joshua Avitto and the injuring of Mikayla Capers days earlier in Brooklyn, authorities said. No details were provided on how St. Hubert, 27, was captured.
St. Hubert was in custody and couldn’t be contacted for comment Wednesday night. It was unclear if he had an attorney. Phone numbers at addresses registered to him were out of service.
St. Hubert has a history of violent assault, with nine arrests on his criminal record, including two for assaulting police and correction officers, and he was released on May 23 in a domestic-assault case, authorities said.