9-yr old NJ boy stabbed to death in Harlem housing project NY

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Updated: Saturday, January 2nd 2010, 12:43 PM
Anthony Maldonado, 9, stabbed to death in hallway of Harlem housing project while visiting family

A 9-year-old New Jersey boy was stabbed to death in a Harlem housing project early Saturday while visiting relatives, police and family said.

About 3:30 a.m., fourth-grader Anthony Maldonado knocked on the door of his uncle's room in the Grant Houses and collapsed with a chest wound.

"Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed," he said.

Paramedics rushed the boy to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital but he couldn't be saved. His grief-stricken mother identified his body there about 8 a.m.

The NYPD said no arrests have been made, but police sources said a man in his 20s was being questioned at the 26th Precinct stationhouse.

"This person is probably not going to be going home tonight," the source said.

Cops were searching elevator shafts and Dumpsters in the housing project last night, apparently looking for the murder weapon.

Anthony had been visiting his grandfather for the holidays.

"He was a nice boy," the uncle said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/01/02/2010-01-02_new_jersey_boy_9_stabbed_to_death_in_hallway_of_harlem_housing_project_while_vis.html