14岁纵火狂刎杀母亲弟妹后放火烧屋自杀

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【侨报网讯】纽约22日发生惨剧，一名14岁少年疑用刀片杀死母亲及3个2至10岁的弟妹，并在全屋纵火后割颈自杀。杀人纵火少年疑有精神问题，曾有多次纵火纪录，事件震惊纽约。

案发地点为纽约斯塔滕岛Nicholas Avenue 302号一幢多层公寓，住有20名居民，分别来自4个家庭。案中一家来自特立尼达拉岛，住在2楼。犯案少年为14岁长子CJ，死者分别是32岁母亲琼斯、10岁女儿布里特尼、7岁女儿梅洛尼及2岁幼子杰曼。父亲居于牙买加，逃过一劫。

事发于前日清晨4时多，2名在附近巡逻的警员闻到燃烧气味，4时13分发现火场位置，立即通知消防部门，并拍门呼喊居民逃生。火势十分猛烈，消防员花了超过个半小时才将火扑熄。

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割2妹颈 再以刀片自割

消防员在客厅发现琼斯、布里特尼和梅洛尼的烧焦尸体，其中琼斯伏在地上，面向地面，似乎想爬离火场。CJ的尸体则在一个房间寻获，当时他的坐姿恍如日本武士剖腹，手臂之下则有一片剃须刀片。杰曼则由消防员救出屋外送院，其后证实不治。有住客表示，幸得两名醒目警察拍门叫醒，12名住客安全离开，没有受伤。

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该幢公寓并无按法例规定安装烟雾感应器。警方初时以为一家五口都是火警致死，但其后发现，布里特尼、梅洛尼和CJ的颈部都被割开，怀疑是CJ杀死母亲和弟妹之后纵火，再以刀片割颈自杀。杰曼的颈上没有刀伤，暂时未知他的死因；琼斯则因为严重烧焦，未知身上有否刀伤。

警方未有发现遗书，亦相信火警并非“第6人”所为，法医已开始检验5具尸体。

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街坊对怀疑杀害家人的CJ印象不一，有人指他“适应力强”，尽心尽力协助母亲，有邻居更指从来没听闻过他搞事。但有街坊指他对母亲和妹妹言语态度恶劣。

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袭副校长停学 要求接受辅导

事实上，CJ一向操行欠佳，据称年初因袭击副校长被停学。此外，他对火有一种莫名的幻想，心魔难息，学校曾因为他几次纵火而要求他接受心理辅导。

邻居又指，他最近几日在家门外烧纸张，周三更因纵火被赶离公共泳池，发生惨剧前几小时亦曾在家门前玩火。朋友指出，CJ的母亲为此备受压力，怎料最终还是酿成惨剧。

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From SILIVE.com
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Investigators continued yesterday piecing together Thursday's murder-arson-suicide that rocked Port Richmond but did not release any final conclusions.

The area around 302 Nicholas Ave. remained closed off as detectives and Fire Department units remained on the scene of the gruesome fire where a family of five died.
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A memorial with flowers and a large brown Teddy bear, with 'I love you' embroidered on a red heart, was set up near the home.
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9 v! P+ ]4 C! H$ Y/ ]( kCops initially theorized that 14-year-old C.J. Raymond slashed his younger sisters' necks before setting his apartment on fire and killing himself with the same razor.

. @, n, \9 i+ F/ _' o7 zThe razor was found lodged under C.J.'s body.
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; H) {# n' K; X% c, yOn Friday, detectives found a charred note, reading "am sorry," stuck to a butane lighter. The hand-written note was found not far from the bodies of 32-year-old cosmetology student Leisa Jones and her daughters, 7-year-old Melonie and 10-year-old Brittney, and police officials said they are trying to find out who wrote it.

+ g0 X- H2 ^0 [' dThe Medical Examiner determined the girls died of their neck wounds while tests about how the mother died were inconclusive. Another son, 2-year-old Jermaine Sinclaire, who was found near the front door, died of smoke inhalation, the ME's office said.

Jermaine Sinclair Sr., father of Jermaine, told the New York Post that C.J. was not capable of the crime.
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( j3 y/ `6 M. S5 h2 f# O9 s6 `) }# M"C.J. is not capable of anything like that," Sinclair said after visiting his son's body in a morgue. "C.J. didn't do that. I think someone else was in the room."

$ d5 K8 f( a" z4 oThe boy "was getting in trouble in school -- fighting in school, kids teasing him," he added.
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Toxicology tests for Ms. Jones and C.J. can take weeks to complete, ME spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. Police said they will look at writing samples from the family members.

- q: S) ~4 L+ Y0 X3 @$ c# DAn NYPD spokeswoman said no information about that was available yesterday.
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