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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 Tuesday.

New details have emerged in the shocking double murder of a senior Brooklyn couple last weekend, both of whom were brutally stabbed allegedly by their son.

NEW YORK — The elderly couple stabbed to death in their Brooklyn home had been trying to get mental health help for their son now charged with their murders, neighbors told the New York Daily News on Monday. Meyer Sperber, 48, has been charged with murder and weapon possession in the Saturday double killing on a typically quiet Borough Park block, police said Sunday. A neighbor who is a close ...

The son of an elderly couple stabbed to death in their Brooklyn home has been charged with murder, police said Monday. Meyer Sperber, 48, is charged with murder and weapon possession in the Saturday evening double killing on a typically quiet Borough Park block. Cops responded to a 5:20 p.m. 911 call for an assault at the family’s apartment building on 45th Street near 12th Ave. When officers ...

Meyer Sperber was charged late Sunday and also faces two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fatal Saturday stabbings of his dad Jacob and mom Rachel, both 75. 

A 46-year-old man was taken into custody after allegedly fatally stabbing a 75-year-old man, Jacob Sperber and his 75-year-old wife, Rachel Sperber in Brooklyn, New York