Eddie Floyd, 53, died upon returning home after spending 11 days in the hospital after allegedly being stabbed to death by his neighbor José Santos in The Bronx (NYC).
According to police, Floyd got into an argument with his 51-year-old neighbor outside his residential building on East Mosholu Parkway North, near Bainbridge Ave., in the Norwood neighborhood, shortly after noon on April 13.
The two quickly came to blows and Santos pulled out a knife and stabbed Floyd repeatedly around the body, police said. The reason for the dispute has not been disclosed.
Paramedics took Floyd to St. Barnabas Hospital with serious injuries and police took Santos into custody, charging him with attempted murder, assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
After being in the hospital for 11 days, Floyd was released and returned home on April 24. But the next day, police found him dead in his apartment because concerned family members called 911 after they couldn’t reach him.
The city medical examiner ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, confirming that he died from injuries he sustained during his fight with Santos.
No murder charges have been filed against Santos while detectives review the case with the Bronx district attorney’s office. The investigation is still open, he told Daily News a spokesman for the NYPD.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
In recent months, several fatal cases of violence between roommates or neighbors have been reported in New York. This month a 62-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his roommate in Brooklyn (NYC).
In March, a woman stabbed to death her neighbor, a 27-year-old father of two children, during an alleged argument over noise in a building in the Bronx.
At the end of January, a 62-year-old man was murdered in his apartment in the Bronx and his Hispanic roommate was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime. In December, a 46-year-old ex-con turned himself in to police on suspicion of fatally shooting his neighbor amid a lengthy argument about noise he was making at his Bronx residence.
In mid-December, a 27-year-old model was stabbed to death by her roommate in a shelter in Midtown Manhattan because she was apparently listening to music that was too loud.
In November, a 61-year-old man was arrested and accused of stabbing his roommate in an argument because he had loud music on Long Island (NY).
In September a man who was severely beaten by his roommate in the Bronx died after spending more than a month in a coma. At the end of July, a 77-year-old woman was beaten and suffocated to death in her Brooklyn home and her tenant was arrested as a suspect in the crime.
In May a lawyer who had lost his professional license for misconduct was shot to death in a building for people at risk of homelessness in the Bronx. His “roommate” was arrested for the crime.
At the end of April 2022, an elderly man was stabbed to death by a young woman in the home they shared in Brooklyn, both of whom were Hispanic. In March of last year, a young couple was arrested and accused of stabbing his roommate to death in an apartment in the Bronx after he turned on music so as not to hear their early-morning marital fight.
In February 2022, a subject turned himself in to police after fatally stabbing his roommate during a fight inside their Brooklyn apartment. And in January of that year on Staten Island, a 37-year-old man was stabbed to death by his roommate, who confessed to the crime to the NYPD after trying to pass it off as suicide.
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