They killed a man with a pink knife on a New York street; They search for a woman as a suspect – El Diario NY

The injured man was stabbed in the right side of the chest and rushed to Brookdale Medical Center, where he died. The victim did not have identification and until yesterday NYPD still could not locate his name.

There are several homeless encampments in the area, including one just a block from where the man was stabbed, police sources told The Associated Press. Daily News. No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

This year there have been several cases of deaths and injuries in New York parks linked to homelessness and/or overdoses. Last week, a homeless 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a group fight in a park in Lower Manhattan (NYC).

A recent NYPD report warned that Fatal stabbings are up 29% this year in the city compared to before the pandemic (2019). Attacks with knives have become more frequent in various scenarios: streets, buildings, homes, buses, Metro, parties, schools and even commercial establishments and ATM areas.

In September, a walker found a woman dead with several injuries in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. In mid-August, a man was killed while he slept in a park near NYPD headquarters.

In another similar case, a fight between homeless men in July left one victim fatally stabbed in Washington Squarean iconographic Manhattan park plagued by violence in recent years, despite being in the heart of the NYU university area, next to the bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood and the beginning of the elegant 5th Avenue.

Days later, a Hispanic man was stabbed to death “at random” while he slept on a bench on Pier 84 in Hudson River Park, between the Circle Line tourist terminal and the Intrepid Museum, in Midtown West, Manhattan. A Latino teenager arrested in the case said he had gone out to kill “the first one he saw.”