Woman stabbed to death by boyfriend in Bronx apartment; teen son hospitalized
Feb 28, 2026
A 42-year-old Bronx woman was killed and her 16-year-old son was hospitalized following a bloody stabbing early Saturday, police said.
The attacker, believed to be the woman’s boyfriend, fled the scene in a construction worker’s outfit and was still being sought by authorities.
The bloodshed beg
an around 6:40 a.m. when the suspect attacked victim Yesina Hall and her son inside a third-floor apartment on Sherman Ave. near E. 163rd St. in the Concourse section of the Bronx.
Yesenia Hall
Tenants in the building said they were roused awake by someone screaming “No! No! No!”
“The noise woke me up,” downstairs neighbor Shanae Headen told the Daily News.
Headen, 33, couldn’t tell if Hall or her son was the one screaming.
“Somebody was tussling and moving and then somebody saying ‘No! No! No! No!'” she recalled.
According to Headen, the brawl sounded “like somebody was thrown to the wall or somebody was moving furniture or something.”
Cops called to the scene found blood smeared on the stairwell from the third floor to the second, and more blood smeared on the walls in the second-floor hallway.
Officers seen outside of the apartment where the stabbing took place on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
They also found Hall bleeding from stab wounds to the neck and chest, officials said. Her teenage son was suffering from stab wounds to his neck and back.
EMS took both victims to Lincoln Hospital, where Hall died. Her son is expected to survive.
A second neighbor saw cops and EMS arrive. First responders rolled Hall out of the building on a stretcher and were pumping her chest as they raced her to an awaiting ambulance.
Hall wasn’t moving, the woman said.
“It’s heartbreaking because I’m a woman too,” said the neighbor, who declined to give her name. “It could have been me. I don’t know what’s going on.”
The bloody scene, which was found right outside of Headen’s apartment, left the tenant fearing for her safety.
“I have kids,” she said. “They don’t want to see that.”
Late Saturday morning, five people arrived at Hall’s apartment and spoke to police, claiming to be relatives. One sobbing young woman said she was Hall’s daughter.
The grief-stricken group — their faces stained with tears — refused to talk to reporters as they exited the building and entered a van a short time later.
Police were searching for suspect after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the neck, back and torso inside their fourth-floor apartment on Sherman Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday February 28, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
Hall and her son had been living in the building for about two years, neighbors said.
“Sometimes I would see her with her boyfriend,” a first-floor neighbor, who wished not to be named, said about Hall.
The victim and her son mostly kept to themselves, though the neighbor said she noticed the teenage boy wearing a school uniform.
“He seemed like a regular teenage kid coming home from school,” she added, noting that he may go to the nearby Bronx School of Law and Justice.
“This is heartbreaking,” the neighbor said about the bloody carnage. “It’s just sad.”
Police were searching for suspect after stabbing his girlfriend and her son inside of a building on Sherman Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday February 28, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
Following the brutal attack, the suspect fled the apartment and changed into a reflective construction vest and hardhat before he ran off down E. 163rd St.
No arrests have been made.
Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that can help them locate the stabber.
Saturday’s killing is the second homicide to take place in the 44th Precinct this year, officials said.
As of Feb. 22, murders in the city have dropped nearly 42%, from 48 this time last year to 28, according to NYPD statistics.
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