Authorities recovered an axe from a trash compactor at the public housing complex in the Bushwick neighborhood, and said it is part of the investigation.
The injured woman “suffered lacerations to her chest, arms, torso and a large laceration to her head,” an NYPD spokesman said. Her daughter was taken to a hospital for evaluation and is now with family members.
Rivera’s body was discovered after the 21-year-old woman fled the apartment and flagged an Uber on the street. The driver, noticing that she was covered in blood, then called police.
A 21-year-old woman with a deep laceration to the back of her head first met police before she was sent to the hospital.
In the living room of the apartment, a partially decapitated woman lay on the floor, dead. Her fingers were severed, and she had multiple stab wounds and deep lacerations on her head, arms and body.
In the bedroom, a 4-year-old girl — the daughter of the hospitalized woman — was found unharmed. And in a trash compactor near the public housing complex, authorities recovered an axe.