Police have charged a Brooklyn man in the gruesome quadruple murder of his relatives, including two small children.
Shahboz Rajabboev, 24, faces first- and second-degree murder for stabbing his mother, sister-in-law, 5-year-old niece and 4-year-old nephew in the family’s first-floor Bensonhurst apartment Friday night.
The suspect’s brother — father of the two slain children — walked into the bloody scene after returning home to his six-story building on W. Eighth St. near Avenue P around 10:15 p.m.
He encountered Rajabboev, who was scratched and covered with blood, and after asking him where their mother was, the killer mumbled something like “Go find her,” cops said.
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Four people were pronounced dead on scene inside an apartment at West 8th Street and Avenue P in Brooklyn on Friday July 19, 2024. Photos taken on Saturday July 20, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
The sibling went into the apartment and found his mother, 56-year-old Fayzieva Mavlyuda, dead from multiple stab wounds to the neck, then called 911 — saying he couldn’t find his wife and two children.
When police arrived, they found the remaining victims — Maftuna Khakimova, 27, stabbed to death in a bedroom, wrapped in a sheet, and Kamila Shavkatova, 5, and her brother, 4-year-old Timur, dead in the closet of another bedroom, stuffed in laundry bags, police said.
“There was a lot of people, family members outside here last night. I recognized some of the family members,” fifth-floor resident Jennifer Ponzi told the Daily News on Saturday. “The father was outside crying a lot. His whole world is destroyed, he lost his mother, his wife, and kids.”
As police searched the apartment for evidence, Rajabboev, who also lived there, returned and was taken into custody, police said Saturday.
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Shahboz Rajabboev is led from the NYPD 62nd Precinct station house in Brooklyn, New York City on Sunday, July 21 2024. Rajabboev is charged with stabbing four people, including two young children, to death in a Bensonhurst apartment Friday. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)
“He was claiming it was someone else when they took him,” said neighbor Paul Saviam, 40. “They arrested him right on the sidewalk outside the building. He was walking and police was here. … When they questioned him he was drinking. He was casually looking around when he [was] walking to the building.”
Saviam added: “He looked scary, had the eyes of a pit bull.”
A small memorial remained outside the building Sunday morning. One family friend, who lives nearby, said the victims’ surviving kin wasn’t ready to comment.
Rajabboev was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Sunday.
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