Homicide is ruled in kid slash death

His schoolmates had no idea that when they saw 6-year-old Tyzavier Martin collapse in the lunch line, they witnessed a homicide.

Tyzavier was rushed to Lincoln Hospital after the incident June 14 at at Public School 5 in Port Morris, the Bronx, but he could not be saved.

The city medical examiner ruled Tyzavier’s death a homicide on Friday, and blamed his death on a horrifying incident three months before when the boy and his 2-year-old sister allegedly were slashed in the neck by their mother, 24-yearold Shanice Martin.

An autopsy revealed that Tyzavier died from asphyxia because of a tumor in his throat and a slash wound to his neck, the medical examiner said.

Tyzavier’s slow-motion death began April 27, when Martin cut his throat “from ear to ear,” police sources said at the time. She is accused of inflicting the same horrific injury on Tyzavier’s little sister.

After the slashing, Martin walked away, abandoning the children near the corner of Washington and Brook Aves. in Morrisania at 8:20 p.m.

Panicked pedestrians saw the wounded children and flagged down a passing police cruiser, which rushed them to Lincoln Hospital.

While her children were at the hospital, Martin walked into the 42nd Precinct stationhouse, a few hundred yards away. “Go ahead and arrest me,” she said as she handed over the bloodsoaked razor she used in the attack, police sources said.

Both children survived, and were later placed in their father’s care.

Weeks later, Tyzavier returned to school and passed out on his second day back.

“He hit his head. Blood was coming out of his mouth,” an 11-year-old fellow student told the Daily News at the time.

Martin faces an attempted murder and other charges, authorities said Friday. She has been held at Rikers Island since her arrest in April.