19-Year-Old Charged With Fatally Stabbing His Father In Their Kensington Home: NYPD

A Kensington teenager was charged with stabbing his father to death in their home on E. 3rd Street, by Ditmas Avenue, at about 10pm Saturday night, police said.

Hassan Razzaq, 19, was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after allegedly stabbing his father, Mohammad Razzaq, 56, in the neck with a kitchen knife, the NYPD said.

According to the Daily News and the Post, police sources and neighbors said the stabbing followed years of the son being abused at the hands of his father.

“The father was very abusive,” a neighbor, Robert, told the Daily News. “He was beating that kid all day. I feel terrible for that boy. He was pushed. He was definitely pushed.”

According to the News:

Hassan told investigators that he and his sisters were tired of the physical abuse that their father subjected them to, police sources said.

“There’s always abuses. There’s always cops there,” Robert said of the Razzaq home, where Hassan, his four siblings and parents have lived for about eight years. “The kid’s a good kid. He was getting beat every night, beat every night.”

A prosecutor told the Post that “Hassan had recently learned that one of his sisters had been molested by his dad for years.”

The Post reported:

The father had just come back from Pakistan and the teen feared that another, 15-year-old sister would become the next victim, said ADA Tziyonah Langsom.

Cops said they had been repeatedly called to the house in the past to handle disputes involving Mohammad Razzaq and his family. The father lived at the home with his wife and five kids, who range in age from around 9 to 21.

“I don’t feel one bit sorry for the victim,” Bobby, a neighbor who lives across the street from the Razzaq family, said to the Post. “That’s how sad it is.”