Two men were fatally stabbed in separate incidents in Queens and Harlem on Friday night and early today, the New York police said.
A man from 35 years old was fatally attacked inside a building on the block 3400 of Broadway near West 98th Street. The victim, who received two stab wounds to the chest and one to the neck last night shortly after 11 pm, he was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The policemen detained a man from 61 years at the scene and recovered a knife. The charges are pending and “the investigation is ongoing,” reported New York Post.
Hours later, around 3: 10 am today, a man from 32 years old was stabbed in the head multiple times and his girlfriend of 32 years old suffered cuts to her left arm during a dispute in the corner of the street 98 and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens.
Both victims were transported to the Elmhurst Hospital, where the man was pronounced dead and the woman is in stable condition, authorities said. A suspect aged 20 was arrested with an unknown object outside of 38-27 98th Street. The charges against him were pending.
According to Daily News, the confrontation began in a party room and spread to the street. During the fight, the younger man pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed his opponent in the head. The victim’s girlfriend was cut on the arm as she tried to break up the fight, police said.
Hours before, also in Harlem yesterday, a teenager was shot dead in broad daylight, causing chaos on sidewalks and streets. Those three homicides in a few hours at the beginning of the month and the long Independence Day holiday confirm the fears of experts that New York is going to experience a spike in violence this summer, both with firearms and blades.
In 2022, at the end of June there were 197 homicides in the city, compared to 226 in the same period of 2021, for a drop of 12.8%. In total, 747 people have been shot so far this year in NYC, compared to 817 to this moment in 817, which represents a decrease of 8.6%. But the figures are still much higher than NYC’s crime rate before the pandemic.
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