India, April 7 -- A man slashed four young girls with a meat cleaver in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, April 6, before he was shot by police. The suspect, 49-year-old Lun Chang Chen, was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition, police said.

Police rushed to a home on 84th Street around 10:15 am after an injured 11-year-old girl, one of the victims, called 911 after locking herself in a room. She told the dispatcher her uncle, Chen, had stabbed her and her siblings.

"At that point [the cops] heard screams coming from behind the door to their left and immediately began forcing their way into the apartment, kicking down the door," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at a briefing at the scene, as reported by the New York...