Cops shot and killed a man who slashed his elderly father in the head after the maniac came at them with a large butcher knife inside the pair’s blood-soaked Manhattan apartment Sunday afternoon, police said.
Officers were called to the Ludlow Street home on the Lower East Side for an assault in progress at around 4 p.m. and arrived to find a blood trail leading them up the stairs — where they came face-to-face with the knife-wielding madman, the NYPD said.
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