A man has been taken into custody after FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, 61, was stabbed to death in Queens on Thursday afternoon.
Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, 61, was on duty when a man stabbed her multiple times "in a barbaric and completely unprovoked attack" just outside her EMS station in"Members of EMS serve only to help and save other people's lives," Kavanagh said. "To be attacked in the course of helping others is both heartbreaking and enraging for our department in ways I cannot describe.
An eyewitness who knows the attacker chased him to an apartment building on 41st Street where he barricaded himself inside his third-floor apartment, Essig said. FDNY members paid their respects to slain FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling at Mount Sinai Queens Hospital on Thursday night.said. "We lost one of our heroes. She provided a service in the city for over 24 years."Russo was a World Trade Center first responder who "exemplified FDNY EMS," the fire commissioner said.
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