Police: Neighbor Attacks Burmese Family, Killing 3 Brothers

A Burmese immigrant accused of stabbing three young brothers to death had scared a different neighborhood family by knocking on their door several times in the middle of the night.

“He’s crazy,” neighbor Ner Wah said Wednesday. “I told my wife: ‘Be careful. Don’t answer the door.'”

The suspect, identified as 18-year-old Eh Lar Doh Htoo, attacked a Burmese family in their home Tuesday night with a knife, killing the brothers–ages 1, 5 and 12, police said. When officers arrived, he was still holding the knife, New Bern Police Chief Toussaint Summers Jr. told The Associated Press.

Eh Lar Doh Htoo

Htoo also wounded the brothers’ mother and their 14-year-old sister. Police said they don’t know a motive for the attack and a language barrier hampered their investigation.

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New Bern is a coastal town and home to about 1,900 Burmese refugees, who resettled in the area after fleeing persecution in the former country of Burma, which is now known as Myanmar.

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The stabbings happened on a street of about 10 row-like homes that face a railroad track and several dilapidated commercial buildings.

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