The victim, aged 30, died in hospital after being injured in the abdomen.
An Italian student at Columbia University was stabbed to death Thursday night in New York by a young man, already imprisoned for violence, who then stabbed a second Italian and attacked a third bystander, according to consistent sources.
New York police confirmed on Friday the death of ’30-year-old Davide Giri,’ who died in hospital of injuries to his abdomen after being stabbed in the Harlem neighborhood of northwest Manhattan. , near the Columbia campus.
The victim was a student at Columbia University.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed “a serial knife attack in which an Italian was killed and another injured”.
In fact, according to the police, a second 27-year-old man was injured by stab wounds to the chest, in the same neighborhood as the first attack. Taken to hospital, he is in stable condition.
The assailant arrested
The alleged assailant, a 25-year-old man according to police, was arrested shortly after the second attack, north of Central Park, when he threatened with a knife a third man aged 29.
The daily Daily Newswhich released photos of the deceased Italian man and his alleged killer on Friday, described the assailant as a gang member from New York’s Queens borough, who had already served four years in prison and was arrested repeatedly for a series of violence.
Crime and misdemeanor indicators in New York had picked up again in 2020 during the pandemic but have seen a lull this year.
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