{"id":172697,"date":"2026-03-23T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:26:31","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-roommate-charged-with-fatally-stabbing-74-year-old-woman-injuring-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172697\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Roommate charged with fatally stabbing 74-year-old woman, injuring another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old woman is facing charges for stabbing two people in Crown Heights over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>One of those victims, 74-year-old Hadiatou Bah, died. The other, a 72-year-old woman, was critically injured. <\/p>\n<p>Police say 43-year-old Oumou Bah is charged with murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon. <\/p>\n<p>News 12 was also told that Oumou Bah was actually a roommate of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Oumou Bah is accused of using scissors to stab the 74-year-old woman multiple times in the head and arms until she died, and repeatedly stabbing another woman in her back and arms. <\/p>\n<p>Tenants of the building say this kind of violence is much different than what they are used to. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say that Oumou Bah and Hadiatou Bah are not related \u2013 despite having the same last name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-year-old woman is facing charges for stabbing two people in Crown Heights over the weekend. One of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102,3316,9951,9,24,63,260,15858,2442],"class_list":["post-172697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-deadly-stabbing","tag-fatal-stabbing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbing","tag-stabbing-case","tag-stabbings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}