A man was found dead yesterday with a stab wound to the neck in an apartment in Washington Heights, a markedly Hispanic area in Upper Manhattan (NYC).
Police responded to an apartment building located at 1 Arden Street around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday for reports of a dispute involving a knife. Upon arrival, officers found the 55-year-old victim with her neck slit, reported ABC News.
The unidentified victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Two persons of interest were detained for questioning, but no charges had been filed as of last night. The investigation is ongoing.
In recent months, several fatal cases of violence between roommates or neighbors have been reported in New York. Earlier this month a man turned himself in to police for allegedly shooting his neighbor, a young immigrant father who died in the arms of his girlfriend in the Bronx in April.
In April a 62-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his roommate in Brooklyn (NYC).
In March, two men were shot dead and another wounded at NYCHA buildings in Queens and Brooklyn within hours of each other. That month, a woman also 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 over the noise he was making at his Bronx residence.
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