Two Women Found Stabbed to Death in a Park Slope Building. The Same Address Saw a Tragedy in 2024.
Two women — one 59 years old, the other 23 — were found stabbed to death the evening of Saturday, May 30, 2026, inside an apartment at 386 2nd Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Officers from the NYPD’s 78th Precinct responded to a 911 call around 8 p.m. reporting a woman being assaulted. Both women were pronounced dead at the scene.
As of May 31, police have not announced any arrests and have not stated a motive. The medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of each death. Police have not publicly characterized the deaths or released a determination, and the identities of the two women have not been released pending family notification.
What makes the case notable beyond its own tragedy is the address. The same building was the scene of a separate fatal incident in early 2024 — an apparent murder-suicide reported by local outlets at the time. That coincidence, not any established connection between the two events, is the reason the latest deaths drew citywide attention.
- 2women found stabbed to death — one 59, one 23 — inside the apartment — Brooklyn Paper · News 12 Brooklyn · May 31, 2026
- 386 2nd Stthe Park Slope address — the same building tied to a fatal 2024 incident — PIX11 · News 12 Brooklyn · January 2024
- ~8 p.m.the time of the 911 call that brought the 78th Precinct to the scene on May 30 — New York Post Metro · May 31, 2026
- 0arrests announced and no motive established as of May 31 — Brooklyn Paper · May 31, 2026
- 94murders citywide through May 24, 2026 — down 24.8% from 125 a year earlier — NYPD CompStat / NY1 · CBS New York · 2026
A 911 call, two women dead, and a deliberately narrow set of confirmed facts. Almost everything else is still open.
According to local reporting, officers from the NYPD’s 78th Precinct were dispatched to 386 2nd Street in Park Slope around 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, after a 911 caller reported a woman being assaulted. Inside the apartment, responding officers found two women — one 59 and one 23 — with stab wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
That is, at this stage, the substance of what has been confirmed. Police have not announced an arrest, have not identified a suspect publicly, and have not stated a motive. The names of the two women have not been released pending notification of their families. The cause and manner of death for each will be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
We are reporting only what has been confirmed. In the hours after a violent death, early accounts are frequently revised. We will update this page as the NYPD and the medical examiner release additional, attributable information.
One outlet framed it as a possible murder-suicide. Police have not confirmed that — and neither have we.
Coverage of the case has not been uniform, and the differences matter. Most outlets — including the New York Post, Brooklyn Paper, and News 12 — have reported the deaths as an open double homicide, with no determination announced. One outlet, the New York Daily News, framed the case as an “apparent murder-suicide” involving a “mom and daughter.”
That framing is, as of this writing, uncorroborated. Police have not characterized the deaths as a murder-suicide, a homicide, or anything else; they have not released a determination of the manner of death; and the relationship between the two women has not been officially confirmed. We are not asserting that this was a murder-suicide, and we are not asserting that it was a third-party homicide. Both remain possibilities until the NYPD and the medical examiner say otherwise.
This is not a technicality. The difference between a double homicide and a murder-suicide changes whether there is a killer still at large, whether the public faces any continuing risk, and how the case is ultimately resolved. Reporting one scenario as fact before the medical examiner has spoken would be irresponsible — and would do a disservice to the families of two people whose names have not yet been made public.
- →Confirmed: Two women — one 59, one 23 — found with stab wounds inside 386 2nd Street, Park Slope, the evening of May 30, 2026.
- →Confirmed: NYPD 78th Precinct responded to a roughly 8 p.m. 911 call reporting a woman being assaulted; both women pronounced dead at the scene.
- →Not confirmed: The manner of death. Police have not characterized the deaths or released a determination.
- →Not confirmed: That this was a murder-suicide. One outlet (NY Daily News) reported a possible murder-suicide; police have not confirmed it.
- →Not confirmed: The relationship between the two women. It has not been officially confirmed.
- →Not released: The names of the two women, pending family notification.
- →Not announced: Any arrest, suspect, or motive.
“There was no indication of who killed the women or what the motive was.”
Summary of local reporting · Brooklyn Paper · May 31, 2026
386 2nd Street was the scene of a fatal incident in January 2024. There is no established link between the two cases.
The detail that elevated a local tragedy into a citywide story is the address itself. In late January 2024, the same building was the scene of a separate fatal incident. Olga Kirshenbaum, 34, and her partner Jason Jackson, 34, were found shot in the head; a firearm was recovered next to Jackson. The 78th Precinct responded around 1 a.m., and the case was reported at the time as an apparent murder-suicide by PIX11 and News 12 Brooklyn.
It is important to be precise about what this means and what it does not. There is no evidence in the current public record connecting the 2024 deaths to the May 2026 deaths. They involved different people, different methods, and a two-year gap. The shared address is a coincidence of geography, not a demonstrated pattern. We note it because it is true and because it is the documented reason the latest case drew the coverage it did — not because it establishes anything about how either case will be resolved.
- →Late January 2024: A man and a woman, both 34, found dead inside 386 2nd Street, Park Slope.
- →Identified by police at the time as Olga Kirshenbaum and Jason Jackson; both found shot in the head, with a firearm recovered next to Jackson.
- →Responded to by the NYPD 78th Precinct at roughly 1 a.m.; reported as an apparent murder-suicide.
- →No established connection to the May 2026 deaths exists in the current public record.
Two found dead in murder-suicide in Park Slope
It was the fourth fatal Brooklyn stabbing in a week. Yet 2026 is on track for the fewest murders the city has recorded.
Brooklyn Paper reported that this was the fourth fatal stabbing in the borough in a single week — a cluster grim enough on its own. But the larger numbers cut against the intuition that cluster invites. By the NYPD’s own count, New York City is in the middle of one of its safest stretches on record.
The department reported a record-low first quarter of 2026 — roughly 54 murders, a decline of about 28% year over year, with Brooklyn murders down roughly 57% in the first quarter. The NYPD has described the first three months of the year as the fewest murders and shooting incidents in recorded history. Through May 24, 2026, citywide murders stood at 94, down 24.8% from 125 over the same period in 2025. And 2025 itself ended with 305 murders, down roughly 20% from 382 in 2024, with the fewest shootings the city has logged.
None of that diminishes what happened at 386 2nd Street. Statistics describe a city; they do not describe a block or a building or an apartment. But the trend line is a necessary part of the record: a single horrific week in one borough is real, and so is the multi-year decline it sits inside. Both can be true at once, and the honest version of this story holds both.
- →Q1 2026: ~54 murders citywide — roughly 28% lower year over year; described by the NYPD as a record low.
- →Q1 2026: Brooklyn murders down roughly 57% versus the prior year.
- →Through May 24, 2026: 94 murders citywide vs. 125 over the same period in 2025 — a 24.8% decline.
- →2025 full year: 305 murders, down roughly 20% from 382 in 2024 — with the fewest shootings in recorded history.
- →Context for this case: reported as the fourth fatal stabbing in Brooklyn in a single week (Brooklyn Paper).
The officials whose offices will carry this case. Named, titled, and current.
Public-safety accountability in New York runs through specific offices, and it is worth naming who holds them now. The case falls to the NYPD’s 78th Precinct and, if charges follow, to the office of the Kings County District Attorney. We name these officials as a matter of record, not as an allegation: at this stage there is no arrest and no charge, and nothing here implies wrongdoing by any official.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D)Mayor of New York City — 112th MayorSworn in January 1, 2026, succeeding Eric Adams. As mayor, he sits atop the city agency — the NYPD — responsible for investigating the case.
- Commissioner Jessica TischNYPD Police Commissioner (nonpartisan)Retained from the Adams administration under Mayor Mamdani. Leads the department whose 78th Precinct responded to the scene.
- DA Eric Gonzalez (D)Kings County (Brooklyn) District AttorneyA self-described progressive prosecutor, re-elected November 4, 2025. His office would prosecute any charges arising from the case.
- NYPD 78th PrecinctLocal command — covers Park Slope, BrooklynThe precinct that responded to the May 30 911 call and to the separate January 2024 incident at the same address.
The 78th Precinct serves Park Slope and the surrounding Brooklyn neighborhood — the command that responded to the May 30 call at 386 2nd Street and to the separate January 2024 incident at the same address. (No specific post on the May 2026 case has been confirmed; this is the responding precinct's official account.)
Two people are dead, the case is open, and the careful facts are the only ones worth printing. The rest will come from the medical examiner.
What is known is narrow and verified: two women, one 59 and one 23, were found stabbed to death inside an apartment at 386 2nd Street in Park Slope on the evening of May 30, 2026, after the 78th Precinct responded to a roughly 8 p.m. 911 call. No arrest has been announced and no motive established. Their names have not been released.
What is not known is most of what readers will want to know. Police have not characterized the deaths. The medical examiner has not ruled on the manner of death. One outlet reported a possible murder-suicide that police have not confirmed; the relationship between the two women has not been officially confirmed. We are not asserting murder-suicide and we are not asserting third-party homicide. We are waiting, as the investigators are, for the determination.
The address’s history is a coincidence worth noting and nothing more. The citywide trend is favorable and does not erase a single death. And the people whose offices will carry this case — Mayor Mamdani, Commissioner Tisch, DA Gonzalez, the 78th Precinct — are named here for the record, before any arrest, with no implication of wrongdoing. When there is more to report, attributable to the NYPD or the medical examiner, this page will carry it.
