An EMS lieutenant was stabbed to death in a random attack in Queens on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
It happened at around 2:15 p.m. while she was on duty at Station 49 on 20th Avenue and 41st Street in Astoria.
"While outside her station she was stabbed multiple times in a barbaric and completely unprovoked attack," said Acting FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh. "Members of EMS serve only to help and save other people's lives. To be attacked and killed in the course of helping others is both heartbreaking and enraging for our department in ways I can't describe.
"Our hearts go out to the family, her colleagues and the city of New York. We lost one of our heroes," Mayor Eric Adams said.
"This deadly, senseless, broad daylight attack on a uniformed EMT member is a direct assault on our society," Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. "We can never tolerate this violence in our city. It has to, and will, be stopped."
NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said Russo-Elling was going to get food when she was "viciously attacked" by the 34-year-old suspect, "stabbing her numerous times about her body."
CBS2's Tim McNicholas spoke on the phone with a business owner who turned his security video over to police. He said he watched it and it shows Russo-Elling near 20th Avenue and 41st Street. He said a man walked out of an apartment building, ran towards her, and stabbed her multiple times.
The business owner said, "It was totally unprovoked. There was no rhyme or reason. There was no back and forth."
McNicholas asked that business owner if he'd ever seen the suspect before and he said he had seen him wandering around the neighborhood aimlessly and that he looked "unhinged" and "like he was on another planet."
This is basically the same type of senseless savage attack that led to the murder of two on-duty police officers nearly a decade ago. They also were on their lunch break like Lt. Russo-Elling. That also happened barely a year into de Blasio's first term in office.
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I'm very sorry to hear this tragic news God Bless Lt. Alison Russo-Elling and her Family.
And the so-called authorities will not release the killer's name.
Go figure.
My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. God bless her soul. RIP.
Another failure of Mayor Adams and all NY Polls! I PRAY FOR THE CITIZENS OF NY...
Everyone will say how tragic this is and give their thoughts and prayers. They will then run out to the polls in a few weeks and vote straight down the democrat line, for politicians who enable this stupidity to continue.
@“ Everyone will say how tragic this is and give their thoughts and prayers”
Just like they do for victims of mass shooters.
But those guys are patriotic ‘cause they have “real Merican guns”!
New York voters are their own worst enemy. They keep voting for the very party that makes their lives miserable.
He was on Social Security Disability for being schizophrenic. The only way he could afford to live on his own in an expensive area like Astoria was to be on some kind of scatter site housing with a city funded monthly housing subsidy. Watch, the city will lie & say that a social worker had just checked in with him. The social worker is crazier than he is! If this is him on his meds I’d hate to run into him when he doesn’t take them.
He belonged in a facility where women were safe from the lines of him. Crazy as he is I notice he didn’t swing on a man or any youth from the NYCHA pj’s - in non ghetto speak that means the heavily tax payer subsidized housing projects.
My condolences to her family, friends and coworkers.
This was a hostile work place- her employer, The City of New York, murdered her in cold blood. I am so sorry.
Is he out on the street yet?
Just wondering why corporate media didn’t mention his color or race? Typical…
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