A Queen mom has been charged with attempted murder for stabbing her 9-year-old daughter multiple times with a kitchen knife yesterday. Police say 43-year-old Ann Carimbocas stabbed her daughter Brianna Davis in her head, shoulder and back with an eight-inch chef’s knife around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning on 176th Street near 145th Avenue in Springfield Gardens. The little girl is now in critical but stable condition. "Right now, I'm so, like in shock," Aliyah Grannum, the little girl's aunt, told WPIX.
Brianna and her mother live in Suffolk County on Long Island; they were visiting the home of a friend overnight Monday in Springfield Gardens. Neighbors and friends told the dailies that Carimbocas had recently been hospitalized for anxiety and had other mental-health problems. “She was like crazy, came out of the house laughing and singing like, so what if I did this to my kid? Not wrapped too tight,” neighbor Wanda Walthour told CBS.
Neighbor Lindsay Fortune told the Times he saw Brianna wheeled out on a gurney, covered in a sheet that was spotted with blood: “Her body was like noodles. It was all wobbly. She was incoherent.” He added that Carimbocas "was cooperating, but she had no emotions on her face."
Sources told WPIX that Carimbocas was incoherent when questioned by police, and tried to use a pen to attack a police employee at the precinct. Medics transported her out of the precinct—strapped to a stretcher, screaming—to a mental health facility for evaluation. She has now been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
