The alleged assailant, a 25-year-old police said, was arrested shortly after the second attack north of Central Park as he threatened a third man, 29. Italian student at Columbia University stabbed to death on the evening of Thursday, December 2 in New York by a young man, already imprisoned for violence, who then stabbed a second Italian and attacked a third passer-by, according to corroborating sources.
New York police on Friday confirmed to Agence France-Presse the death of “Davide Giri, 30,” who died in hospital from wounds in the abdomen after being stabbed in the Harlem neighborhood. in northwest Manhattan, very close to the Columbia campus.
In separate statements, University President Lee Bollinger confirmed the “tragic loss” of Davide Giri, a student at Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. For its part, the Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed “a serial knife attack in which an Italian was killed and another wounded”. In fact, according to the police, a second 27-year-old man was injured by stab wounds in the chest, in the same neighborhood. Taken to hospital, he is in a stable condition.
The daily Daily News, who posted the photos of the deceased Italian and his suspected killer on Friday, described the assailant as queens neighborhood gang member in New York, who had already served four years in prison and has been arrested multiple times for a series of violence.
Crime and misdemeanor indicators in New York started to rise again in 2020 during the pandemic but have experienced a lull this year.
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