A longtime veteran with the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services was fatally stabbed Thursday in an unprovoked attack during her lunch break, police said. A suspect has been taken into custody.
Thursday in an unprovoked attack during her lunch break, police said. A suspect has been taken into custody. multiple times Thursday afternoon while on duty in Queens, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference.Russo-Elling was getting food during her break, while wearing clothes that clearly indicated she was a member of FDNY, when a 34-year-old man brandished a knife and stabbed her multiple times, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
Two people who know the perpetrator witnessed the attack, and one of them chased him into his third floor residence, where he barricaded himself, Essig said. The suspect was talked out of the apartment by members of a hostage negotiating team and taken into custody. His name was not immediately released.
An undated photo of FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo, who was fatally stabbed while on duty in New York City on Sept. 29, 2022. / Credit: NYC Mayor's OfficeActing FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh called the attack on Russo-Elling — who served as a World Trade Center first responder on 9/11 —"barbaric and completely unprovoked."
"Members of EMS serve only to help and save other people's lives," she said."To be attacked and killed in the course of helping others is both heartbreaking and enraging for our department in ways I cannot describe. Lt. Russo exemplified FDNY EMS. She served this city for 25 years, she was a World Trade Center first responder, she was cited multiple times for her bravery and her life saving work and she was absolutely beloved on this job.
Russo-Elling was the 1,158th member of the FDNY to die in the line of duty, and the second member of EMS, to die in the line of duty in the last 5 years, Kavanagh said.'This deadly, senseless, broad daylight attack on a uniformed EMT member is a direct assault on our society," she said."It is the latest consequence of the violence that we relentlessly fight in our city."
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