QUEENS VILLAGE (WABC) More details are emerging about a Queens man accused of murdering his father and attempting to poison three other members of his family, after he apparently told police he detected the devil in his father.
Police say that during their brief conversation, the suspect, 30-year-old Jaimie Walker, told investigators he got in a fight with his father over the presence of the devil. He reportedly said his father hit him in the head with a cup before Walker responded by stabbing his father with a pair of scissors.
The suspect told detectives he saw black smoke escape his father s body, and that black smoke then entered his own body.
The massive staircase known as the Vessel, located at Hudson Yards, is now closed after a string of suicides.
Police have identified the suspect as 30-year-old Jaimie Walker, who lived at the apartment with his parents. Investigators are trying to figure what caused him to snap and harm his family.
Officers cordoned off the three-story building on Hempstead Avenue for most of the day, an investigation that started with a 911 call around 6:30 a.m. for an emotionally disturbed person. Officers observed the man in the hallway acting very incoherently, NYPD Assistant Chief Joe Kenney said. He made statements he had injured somebody inside the apartment. Emergency service unit officers were called to the scene and they made entry into the apartment, where they discovered an unresponsive 72-year-old male who was lying on the floor of the bathroom with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds about the body.