New York Daily News

2 stabbed, 1 shot dead in Queens

- BY BRITTANY KRIEGSTEIN, ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA AND THOMAS TRACY

An East Harlem father of five was shot dead and two others were stabbed in a Queens robbery gone horribly wrong, police said.

The botched Monday holdup happened at NYCHA’s Baisley Park Houses on Guy R. Brewer Blvd. near Foch Blvd. in South Jamaica.

A 22-year-old man told police that two men followed him into the building about 12:40 p.m and put a gun to the back of his head.

When the robbers forced open the victim’s apartment door, all hell broke loose.

The man held at gunpoint was slashed in the hand. A 27-yearold man was also stabbed in the hand, and Hakim Blankumsee was shot in the chest and killed, cops said.

Blankumsee, 26, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

A 25-year-old man in the apartment was being questioned. No charges have been filed, and it was not immediatel­y clear who pulled the trigger, police said.

Detectives were investigat­ing the possibilit­y that Blankumsee (inset) was one of the two robbers, a police source said.

Blankumsee had five arrests on his record, including a sealed case for a 2015 Queens murder, authoritie­s said.

He was busted in January 2015 for slashing his 2-year-old daughter’s wrist during a knife fight with his brother inside their E. 128th St. apartment.

Blankumsee was charged with assault and endangerin­g the welfare of a child. A 12-year-old girl was also in the apartment but not harmed, cops said.

Blankumsee’s mother had more questions than answers Tuesday about her son’s death.

“I don’t know what happened,” said his mother, declining to share her name.

“I can’t really give you no explanatio­n. All I know is my son is dead.”

She noted that Blankumsee had friends and relatives in Queens and may have been visiting them when he was killed.

“He’s dead now honey, gone,” she told a Daily News reporter. “He’s got children and that’s what I have to deal with now.”

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