A Brooklyn man suspected of trying to cut off his pregnant wife’s arm was taken into custody over the weekend.
The couple reportedly had been fighting before Yong Yu, 38, severed Li Yang’s right arm just above the elbow with a steak knife on Thursday afternoon.
Yang, 35, was rushed to the nearby Bellevue Hospital. She also lost two fingers from her left hand. Yang’s arm was successfully reattached, but her fingers were not. She and her baby are in stable condition, ABC 6 reported.
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New York police carried out a two-day manhunt and found Yu near Niagara Falls on Saturday night, according to the Niagara Falls Reporter.
He was found at a welcome center with a life jacket purchased from Walmart. Authorities believe he was planning to swim across the Niagara River into Canada.
According to neighbors, the couple had been living with their school-age child in their apartment on 55th Street near Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park for two years. They reportedly kept matters to themselves.
“Americans, everybody is working. When we come back, we don’t talk a lot,” a neighbor told New York Daily News.
Yu is back in Brooklyn to face a charge of first-degree assault.
