An hour after she finished rehearsal for an upcoming poetry reading, Samantha Revelus was dead on the floor of her family's home. She had been stabbed, police say, by her 23-year-old brother. Kerby Revelus then decapitated his 5-year-old sister as her birthday cake from the day before sat on the kitchen table. It was then that he turned on his 9-year-old sister Sarafina, who called police.
According to the reports, details on the motive or root cause of the attack were unclear in the aftermath of the killings. Revelus attacked his siblings with a household knife while their grandmother was tending to laundry in the basement.
Quick-thinking Sarafina called 911 moments after the attack began. An officer on patrol in the neighborhood arrived within a minute and could hear an altercation inside as he reached the second floor apartment where the family lived. The 911 operator tried to persuade Sarafina to open the door, but when she didn't the officer broke through.
As the officer rushed into the apartment, Revelus decapitated Bianca in front of him. Within moments, four officers were inside and two of them shot Revelus as he tried to get to Sarafina. Revelus fell, still clutching the knife. The surviving 9-year-old was hospitalized with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and one of her legs.
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