Chen charged with murder and arson after killing his mother-in-law in Queens New York and torching home
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2025 1:43 pm
QUEENS, NEW YORK - NYPD detectives have charged the Queens man accused of stabbing his mother-in-law to death and torching the family home before trying to take his own life, police said Saturday.
Wei Sheng Chen, 27, is facing multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, arson, assault and weapons possession for the Thursday afternoon rampage inside the family’s Smart St. home in Flushing.
Chen’s wife was outside the home and screaming for help as the suspect knifed his spouse’s mother, Qiujin Shi, and his 17-year-old brother-in-law, then lit a mattress on fire in a back bedroom around 3:30 p.m., cops said.
As the fire began to spread, Chen then slit one of his wrists in a suicide attempt, according to police.
Neighbors heard Chen’s wife yelling for help and called 911. Responding cops and firefighters put the blaze out within 10 minutes.
One of the first responders was an off-duty, pregnant Port Authority police officer who lived in the area. She rushed to the scene and rendered first aid to the 17-year-old victim when she saw him stumbling outside the home, suffering from a deep gash over his eye and a stab wound to the armpit.
“When I got there, the wife of the stabber was screaming that her mother was stabbed on the floor, unconscious and her husband was starting a fire,” said the Port Authority cop, who wished not to be named. “She was at the door screaming.”
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Wei Sheng Chen, 27, is facing multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, arson, assault and weapons possession for the Thursday afternoon rampage inside the family’s Smart St. home in Flushing.
Chen’s wife was outside the home and screaming for help as the suspect knifed his spouse’s mother, Qiujin Shi, and his 17-year-old brother-in-law, then lit a mattress on fire in a back bedroom around 3:30 p.m., cops said.
As the fire began to spread, Chen then slit one of his wrists in a suicide attempt, according to police.
Neighbors heard Chen’s wife yelling for help and called 911. Responding cops and firefighters put the blaze out within 10 minutes.
One of the first responders was an off-duty, pregnant Port Authority police officer who lived in the area. She rushed to the scene and rendered first aid to the 17-year-old victim when she saw him stumbling outside the home, suffering from a deep gash over his eye and a stab wound to the armpit.
“When I got there, the wife of the stabber was screaming that her mother was stabbed on the floor, unconscious and her husband was starting a fire,” said the Port Authority cop, who wished not to be named. “She was at the door screaming.”
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