A 25-year-old man died hours after he was found seriously injured stabbed in an SUV in Queens (NYC).
A friend of the victim called 911 at 8:10 p.m. Monday to report the stabbing. When police arrived at Woodhaven Blvd. and Atlantic Ave. in the Woodhaven neighborhood, they found the youth inside a Subaru Outback vehicle with multiple stab wounds to the rib cage.
He was initially in stable condition when doctors took him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, but his condition worsened and he died at 1:57 a.m. Tuesday, New York police said. His name was not immediately mentioned, but according to New York Post he had no criminal record.
It’s unclear if the friend who reported the case had been with the victim when the stabbing occurred and where exactly it happened, he said. Daily News. The reason for the attack is also unknown.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
At the end of January, a 26-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound in the passenger seat of a parked car in the middle of the afternoon in The Bronx (NYC). In a similar case, also last month a male body was found inside a burned-out car in Queens.
Young people are increasingly protagonists in gun violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, particularly shootings and attacks with bladed weapons.