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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the hotel stabbing that left a 26-year-old woman and her two small children dead. (all times local):

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11 p.m.

New York City police have arrested a fugitive suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and all three of her small children with a kitchen knife in an attack at a hotel used as homeless housing.

Michael Sykes was arrested on charges of murder, attempted murder and robbery. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.

Police said that before his arrest, Sykes was last seen on surveillance footage Wednesday heading to the Staten Island Ferry shortly after the fatal attack. They say he took the ferry back to Manhattan and was nabbed in Queens on Saturday.

Twenty-six-year-old Rebecca Cutler, her 19-month old daughter Ziana and 4-month-old Maiyah died in the attack at a Ramada Inn on Staten Island. Two-year-old Miracle was in critical but state condition. Sykes was the father of Maiyah.

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5:15 p.m.

New York City police have in custody a fugitive suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and all three of her children in a brutal attack at a hotel used as a homeless housing.

Michael Sykes had been on the lam since the Wednesday attack. He was found Saturday afternoon in Queens by a fugitive task force and was being questioned. Charges were pending.

Sykes is suspected in the attack that left Rebecca Cutler and her 19-month-old and 4-month-old daughters dead. A 2-year-old remains critical.

Police say hotel surveillance shows Sykes entering Cutler's hotel room and leaving four minutes later. Police said he called his mother to say he had killed his girlfriend and was going to kill himself.

Sykes was seen on surveillance video taking a bus to the Staten Island Ferry.

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1:15 p.m.

New York City officials are still hunting for a man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and all three of her children in a brutal attack at a hotel used as a homeless housing.

Michael Sykes was still on the lam Saturday. Detectives have been tracking his possible whereabouts since the Wednesday attack that left Rebecca Cutler and her 19-month-old and 4-month-old daughters dead. A 2-year-old remains critical.

Police say nobody apparently saw or heard what happened, but hotel surveillance shows Sykes entering Cutler's hotel room and leaving four minutes later. Police said he called his mother to say he had killed his girlfriend and was going to kill himself.

Sykes was seen on surveillance video taking a bus to the Staten Island Ferry. Authorities believe he is still alive.

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