Man murders his teenage sister then decapitates his 5-year-old sister

A man killed two of his sisters at a birthday party and stabbed a third with a knife before police shot him dead. Kerby Revelus, 23, attacked his sisters in the home they shared with their parents and grandmother in the Boston suburb of Milton.

He stabbed 17-year-old Samantha to death with a household knife while their grandmother was in the basement. Nine-year-old Sarafina called the police and an officer on patrol in the neighbourhood arrived in less than a minute.



The policeman broke into the house and witnessed Revelus decapitating five-year-old Bianca, whose birthday cake was on the kitchen table. "He actually walked into a killing field. He walked into such carnage, as far as the atrocity of it, I've never seen it," said Milton police chief Richard G Wells Jr.

Within minutes, four police officers were inside the house and two of them shot Revelus dead as he tried to attack Sarafina with a knife.



She has been taken to the Boston Medical Centre with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her stomach and one of her legs.

Revelus had been involved in a fight with a man who lived next door 24 hours before the attack on his sisters, Mr Wells said. "Blows were exchanged," he said. "I don't know the cause of it, but we're confident that did happen. He had been agitated in the hours that followed that."