A mentally ill Brooklyn man was indicted on multiple first-degree murder charges Sunday in the brutal killings of four relatives, including two young children.
Police said Shavoz Rajaboev, 24, was awaiting arraignment in the Bensonhurst massacre that left his mother, sister-in-law and relatives believed to be his niece and nephew dead at an apartment Friday night.
Those killed in the attack were Faizieva Mavlyuda, 56, and Mahtuna Hakimova, 27, and their two children, identified by police as 5-year-old Kamila Shavkatova and her 4-year-old brother Timur Shavkatov.
Police responded to an apartment on West 8th Street in response to a 911 call just after 10:15 p.m. on Friday and found Mavruda “suffering from multiple stab wounds to the neck,” police said.
Police later found the other three bodies and detained Radjaboev.
A police source told The Post that the bodies of the two teenagers who were stabbed to death were stuffed into laundry bags and hidden in a closet inside the apartment.
Neighbors said they heard screams from the apartment but were unaware of the fatal outcome, and that the suspect yelled at officers at the scene, “I’m innocent. Arrest me. I’m not the one who did this.”
One resident, who gave his name only as Paul, said he was there when the suspect came out of the apartment and moments after the father of the slain children approached him.
“Have you seen my family,” the man allegedly said, before running back outside screaming, “My mother is on the floor, bleeding profusely… My family’s gone!”
Paul called Radjaboev “scary.”
“I was walking away from him. He was big, aggressive and had the eyes of a crazy bulldog,” he said. “I knew there was something wrong with him.
“He stopped laughing, he stopped saying hello. I asked him if something had happened and he said, ‘Yeah, something happened with my dad,'” Paul recalled. “He didn’t go into details.”
Another neighbor said the suspect was a habitual drug user.
“When he smokes or does other things, he loses control of his anger,” the man said.
