Two days ago, a very unfortunate situation occurred in a public-housing unit. According to New York Times, an unidentified man stabbed two kids on an elevator; 7 year old Mikayla Capers, who’s in critical condition, and 6 year old Prince Joshua Avitto who is dead. This incident is only another example of the monumental odds most kids face living in public-housing units. Exposed to crime and violence that they did not create, it’s very unfortunate that kids had to suffer from a person who holds that much hate and apathy for the life of another human being; kids at that.
[NYC Excerpt]
–“The 7-year-old girl is hospitalized in critical condition, the only witness to a crime that so far defies explanation: A man stabbed two young children in the elevator of a public-housing project and escaped into the late-spring evening. Her best friend, a 6-year-old boy, is dead.
Though residents of the Brooklyn housing project saw a man fleeing through the development after the attack, he remained at large on Monday, the search made more difficult because the building has no surveillance cameras.
Living in housing projects in East New York means living with the daily threat of violence, and Boulevard Houses is no exception. But until Sunday night, parents felt safe taking their children downstairs to play.
“Who would think,” asked Sherri Baptiste, 53, a close friend of the boy’s mother, “that you would send a child upstairs and they never came back?”–
We pray for the Avitto and Capers family at this time. We can only imagine how their friends and family are feeling at this time.
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