A 24-year-old man was stabbed in the neck at a New York City migrant shelter on Randalls Island. yesterday afternoon.
The NYPD was called to the scene shortly after 3:25 p.m. on Thursday. Upon arrival they found the victim with a stab wound to the neck. Paramedics rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where he was expected to survive. His name was not revealed.
18 people were taken into custodybut police were still searching for the stabbing suspect. A fight broke out between two groupswho started fighting inside the shelter and then left, armed with knives and throwing stones at each othersources said.
A 911 caller indicated that a security guard had stabbed the victim, but law enforcement sources later said it appeared that was not the case and that the attacker was still at large, he said. New York Post.
It was not the first outbreak of violence in that migrant shelter so far this year.: On the night of January 6, Dafren Alexis Cañizales Ceballo, 24, was waiting in line to order food in the dining tent when he was stabbed around 7:30 p.m., according to the NYPD.
He was rushed to Harlem Hospital with a stab wound to the torso, but they could not save him. Police later arrested three suspects, including the alleged attacker, identified as Moisés Coronado (27).
The migration crisis has marked the two years of the administration of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, in the midst of a national political battle between democrats and republicans. It is estimated that between April 2022 and December 2023, NYC spent approximately $3.5 billion dollars in housing and services for more than 164,500 people who passed through the city’s admission center.
The situation has strained the city’s shelter system.. According to local government counts, the population of the shelter system has gone from less than 50,000 in July 2022 to around 120,000 in November.
In September, Mayor Adams declared that the massive arrival of immigrants will “destroy” the city. The situation has caused, in his own words, “Extremely painful” spending cuts that will affect millions of New Yorkers and hamper all city agencies by claiming the lack of resources from Joe Bien’s government.
2024-01-19 15:25:00
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