NATIONAL BRIEFING / MASSACHUSETTS
A man fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then turned toward his 9-year-old sister before officers shot him dead.
There was no clear motive for the carnage wrought by Kerby Revelus, 23, on Saturday, the day after the 5-year-old’s birthday, in the Boston suburb of Milton.
Bianca, 5, and Samantha, 17, were killed.
Sarafina, 9, dialed 911 and watched police shoot her brother. She was hospitalized with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and one of her legs, police said.
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