The troubled “weirdo” accused of killing his elderly parents inside their Brooklyn home was canned from his job and placed on medication before the deadly encounter, authorities said.
Meyer Sperber allegedly flew into a rage Saturday night, knifing his 75-year-old parents, Jacob and Rachel Sperber, over and over again in the family’s Borough Park apartment before “yelling in Yiddish and praying” when cops coaxed him into surrendering, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday.
It wasn’t immediately clear where Meyer Sperber had worked or what medication he was taking ahead of the shocking attack.
The unhinged son plunged a knife into his father a dozen times, hitting his lung, and stabbed his mother six times in the neck, head and thigh, Kenny said.
Neighbors heard items knocked to the ground and Rachel Sperber screaming to call Hatzolah, the Jewish volunteer EMS service, during the slaughter.
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When Hatzolah arrived to the bloody scene at 1158 45th St., Meyer Sperber ran to the back of the apartment and barricaded himself in a back room for about an hour, authorities said.