A “disturbed” man, whom community members described as a “weirdo,” stabbed his elderly parents to death in Brooklyn on Saturday night, police and sources said.
Police responded to a 911 call at 1158 45th St. in Borough Park around 5:20 p.m. and found a man and woman, both 75, with multiple stab wounds throughout their bodies, police said.
The husband and wife, identified as Jacob and Rachel Sperber, were taken to Maimonides Hospital where they were pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.
The victims’ son reportedly barricaded himself in the apartment after the slaughter.
The alleged stabber, a bald man with glasses and a beard, was strapped into a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance as a crowd watched.
Police confirmed a 46-year-old man was taken into custody as a person of interest about an hour after the initial call.
NYPD officials did not immediately name the man or state his relationship to the victims, but law enforcement sources and neighbors told The Post that the man taken away was the couple’s adult son who’s dealt with “issues in his life.”
A neighbor said a building resident had called Hatzolah, the Jewish volunteer emergency service, after hearing noises coming from the apartment above them.
“He’s a disturbed guy. He’s awkward. He’s also very quiet and to himself. He’s had issues in his life,” a different neighbor said of the son.
He lived with his parents, who neighbors described fondly.
“His parents are very nice people. Quiet people, to themselves,” he said.
“He’s such a nice man, the father. Such a quiet man.”
The second neighbor said he had just prayed with Jacob Sperber earlier on Saturday.
Borough Park resident Shlomo Antin described the couple’s son as a “weirdo” but said his father was a beloved part of the community.
“We all knew the son is weird,” Antin told reporters near the scene.
“He was sometimes depressed, sometimes high … he was kind of [a] weirdo,” he continued, adding that he wished the son could have been sent to “some kind of facility” for mental health treatment.
But Antin described Jacob Sperber as “a special person” who would feed hungry people in the neighborhood, and invite them over to his house for food, he said.
“He was from a different generation,” he added.
“There were so many people who knew him.”
No arrests or charges had been filed as of midnight.
