Stabbings

Cops Go To Question Westchester Women-Slasher About Cold Case Murders; Find Woman's Body

What are the odds that when detectives go to question a parolee about two cold case murders they find another body in his house? In the case of Westchester killer Lucius Crawford -- who's already served prison time for stabbing six women -- the odds were apparently pretty good, because that's exactl ... More >>

Random Ass-Stabbing Leaves Queens Man Bloody, Confused

We'll spare you the "better watch your ass" puns and get right to the point: there's a random ass-stabber on the loose in New York and he's already claimed one victim.As you can see in the video above, the man in the white shirt walks up to a man in line at a deli in the Forest Hills section of Quee ... More >>

Here's A Fairly Horrifying Photo Of One Of The Stabbings At The West Indian Day Parade

The West Indian Day parade in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn has proven itself to be one of the more popular events in New York City at which to become a victim of violent crime -- and we've come across a pretty gruesome photo to illustrate that fact.Since 2003, the parade has been marred by ... More >>

Fight Turns Bloody at Bronx Playground

On July 22nd, paramedics arrived at the Half-Nelson Playground in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx at around 9pm, only to find a young 22-year-old man named Tashawn Murray covered in blood and sprawled out across the basketball court. Murray was rushed to a nearby hospital and declared d ... More >>

Queens Mom Gets Prison Time For "Mercy" Stabbing Of Disabled Son

A Queens woman is heading to prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the 2011 stabbing death of her disabled son. What makes the story even worse is that the victim, 39-year-old Rene Veras, begged his mother to kill him the day of his death. What makes the story even more heartbreaking is th ... More >>

9-1-1 Tapes Released In Case Of Decapitated 2-Year-Old; Mom Put Head In Freezer

Last week we told you about a New Jersey woman who decapitated her 2-year-old son before fatally stabbing herself in the neck -- and today the story got even more horrifying.Authorities in Camden announced that autopsy results show that not only was the boy decapitated, but he was still alive when h ... More >>

Simeonette Mapes, Staten Island Teacher, Survives Shootout -- Only To Get Fatally Stabbed The Following Week

"The Cypress Hill[s] projects are no joke."That's what a Staten Island teacher posted on Facebook last week after she and her husband survived a shootout near the Brooklyn school where the couple worked. That teacher, 29-year-old Simeonette Mapes, was found fatally stabbed in her apartment yesterday ... More >>

New Jersey Man Stabs Himself -- Right Before Throwing Pieces Of His Intestines At Cops

Earlier today, we published some pretty gruesome photos supposedly of the mangled face of the victim of a Miami cannibal. Frankly, we thought the photos were the most grotesque thing we'd encounter today. We were wrong.Enter Wayne Carter, a New Jersey man who stabbed himself multiple times on Sunday ... More >>

Gay-Bashing Massachusetts Macho Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime After Attack On Gay Queens Man Backfires

Cristian Flores must have thought he was pretty tough when he and a few of his buddies decided to hassle a gay couple in Queens last year. However, Flores wasn't such a tough guy when one of the gay men tackled him to the ground and held him until police showed up -- and that was only after Flores a ... More >>

Long Island Baby Orphaned After Dad Stabs Baby Mama, Shoots Self

​Two people are dead -- and a baby is now without parents -- after police suspect a 31-year-old Long Island man fatally stabbed his baby mama before taking his own life yesterday morning.According to the Suffolk County Police Department, James Schultz, of East Northport, was found dead inside his ... More >>

Martin Luther King, Defender of the "Most Powerless"

Today is day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States, one of the single individuals to do the most of anyone in advancing the cause of civil rights in our nation during the twentieth century. It's worth remembering King's time in New York -- specifically two events, which both relate ... More >>

Saturday's Body Count: 1 Stabbed, 1 Shot (So Far)

​ Saturday's murder count began just one hour and 44 minutes into the day, with the stabbing death of Elmer Augusto Lopez, 24, at 238 Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, pictured above. The NYPD's bulletin on the incident indicates just one stab wound to the torso, and no arrest has been made. ... More >>

Cardinals Win World Series; Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan; Qantas Flights Grounded

​The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 last night to win their 11th World Series. After letting up 2 runs in the first, the Cardinals scored 6 unanswered to take the series. They were down 2-3 in the Fall Classic after losing game 5 to the Rangers. David Freese was the World Serie ... More >>

Cops Seek Manuel Pinero in Stabbing Outside Chelsea Nightclub

On Monday shortly after 5 a.m., 23-year-old Christopher Adames was stabbed to death on West 21st Street between 11th and 12th Avenues outside the Juliet Supperclub (which you would recognize if you watch Mob Wives). Adames was rushed to Bellevue and pronounced dead on arrival. Police have identified ... More >>

Equan Southall Arrested in the Murder of Camila Guzman

​DNA Info is reporting that Equan Southall, reportedly the boyfriend of Camila Guzman, has been arrested and charged with her murder. Guzman, a transgender woman from Chile, was stabbed to death on August 1st. She was memorialized by friends and LGBT activists outside of her home in East Har ... More >>

Darell Smith, 17, Stabbed to Death in Crown Heights; Teen Suspect ID'ed

Orpheus Nelson, wanted in connection with death​Cops are looking for Crown Heights teen Orpheus Nelson in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Darell Smith in Crown Heights late Tuesday night. Smith, who lived in Bed-Stuy, was found shortly before 11 p.m. at 1785 Pacific Avenue, with ... More >>

Kian Khatibi Graduates NYU After 9 Years in Jail for a Crime His Brother Committed

​Walking in NYU's commencement ceremony today is a guy with a particularly moving story: He's 35, and was imprisoned for 9 years for a crime he didn't commit, which his brother finally confessed to, allowing for his release three years ago. At 22, Kian Khatibi had been at a bar in Pleasantvill ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Eric Bellucci's Madness and Murder of Mom and Dad

​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

Sister of Suspected Killer in Prikhodko Case Speaks

via Toronto Sun​The sister of Nikolai Rakossi, the Russian army vet who is suspected of killing 56-year-old Tatyana Prikhodko and her daughter Larisa, 28, told the New York Post she thinks her brother has killed himself. Tatyana and Larisa, both nurses, were found stabbed to death on April 16 in t ... More >>

Larisa Prikhodko, 26, and Her Mother, Tatyana, Fatally Stabbed in Brooklyn

Larisa Prikhodko​After the jump: Updates on the case about the suspect, a "Russian 'Rambo'" who served in the Russian Army special ops, his departure to Russia, his chance of being apprehended, and the apartment he left "full of empty booze bottles." As New York legislators advocate for a do ... More >>

Woman Stabbed in the Head With a Pencil on the 3 Train

​Updated: Woman on the train blogs about witnessing the incident, after the jump. Update 2: The pencil was a pen, and the stabber (the Post calls him "deranged stoner Cordero Coroberto, 35") had been attempting to light no innocent tobaccey cigarette but "a blunt"! (That's marijuana cigarette ... More >>

Suspect in West Village Stabbing ID'd by Cops

Suspect in stabbing​Cops have identified the man they say is suspected of stabbing a 23-year-old man in the wee hours of March 27 around the area of 256 West Fourth Street in the West Village. The victim's name hasn't been released; at last report, he was in critical condition. The suspect, cops s ... More >>

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Pascual Flores, 22, Stabbed to Death During Beer Run in Brooklyn; Bronx Teen Shot Dead

​Saturday night's party went on too long for Pascual Flores. The 22-year-old Bronx man was stabbed to death shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday, February 20, in Brooklyn, at Liberty and Sheridan avenues in East New York. Cops say he had left a party with another man to get more beer when they were confro ... More >>

Drunk Guy Didn't Notice He'd Been Stabbed

​Certainly, we are bacchanalian sorts, at least, this half of Runnin' Scared is. And we've gotten into all sorts of scrapes while intoxicated that would have caused great pain had we been sober (Drunk Bike Accident of '09, you were a doozy). But this is a cautionary tale to EVEN US. Via the Ne ... More >>

Aleksandr Kuznetsov, 54, Stabbed Dead in Sheepshead Bay; Cops Hunt Lexus-Driving Suspect Maksim Gelman

Homicide suspect Maksim Gelman​A 54-year-old Sheepshead Boy man was found stabbed to death shortly after 5 a.m. today in his home at 2830 East 27th Street. Aleksandr Kuznetsov was discovered with multiple stab wounds and was DOA at the scene. Brooklyn cops already have a suspect: Maksim Gelman, 23 ... More >>

Cock Fights Man

​Here is a cautionary tale. Jose Luis Ochoa, a 35-year-old man attending an illegal cockfight in Tulare County, California, has died after he was stabbed in the leg by one of the birds, which had a knife attached to its limb. Ochoa was apparently a regular cockfight participant and had been pr ... More >>

Brooklyn Super Stabbed Over Rent

​A building super trying to collect overdue rent was stabbed on Friday in Brooklyn, and police are still searching for his killer. 40-year-old Shayne Sinclair was collecting rent for the landlord at a building in Flatlands when the suspect stabbed him in the chest. He died later at the hospita ... More >>

Washington Heights Killer Sought

Suspect in Washington Heights stabbing​Cops released this photo of the suspect in the fatal stabbing of Juan Benito at about 8:25 p.m. Friday in front of 1553 St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights. Benito, 26, was found stabbed in the thigh and was DOA at Harlem Hospital; he lived at 562 Wes ... More >>

Ethal Parrish, 70, Stabbed to Death in Her Bronx Apartment

​A 70-year-old Bronx woman who served on her Crotona Avenue apartment complex tenant safety patrol was found dead in her 15th-floor apartment yesterday afternoon. Ethal Parrish was found stabbed in the back several times, the Daily News reports. No one's been arrested.Tipsters can call Crime Stopp ... More >>

Lemrick Nelson, Crown Heights Riot Murderer, Stabbed with Ice Pick

via the Post Lemrick Nelson​The man who stabbed and killed a Hasidic student 19 years ago in the Crown Heights race riots was stabbed in the head with an ice pick on Sunday. Some might say karma was inescapable for Lemrick Nelson, who police think was driving on the George Washington Bridge wh ... More >>

Police Release Video of Suspect in Bronx Homicide

Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect wanted in connection with the murder of Troynisha Harris, 18, which took place on Saturday, July 24th, at 3:40 a.m. in front of 730 East 166th Street. Harris was stabbed once to the neck and pronounced DOA at the hospital. Anothe ... More >>

Cops Seeking Another Subway Stabber

​The NYPD is looking for the man pictured, who's wanted for questioning regarding a stabbing incident that occurred at 5:22 am at the Franklin Avenue subway station on April 3. During an argument, a 28-year-old man was stabbed several times on the southbound platform. The suspect fled the sc ... More >>

Roland Alonzo-Castro, 18, Chased Out of Prospect Park, Stabbed to Death

View Larger Map DATE: Friday April 2, 2010, 5:28 p.m. LOCATION: Parade Place & Crooke Avenue, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Not often that we get a homicide so close to Prospect Park, but the police say Roland Alonzo-Castro, 18, of Arlington Avenue in Brooklyn was found fatally stabbed on the south end, ... More >>

Two Slashed to Death in Subway Melee; Motive? A Tossed Trash Bag

View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:10 a.m. LOCATION: The 1 Train at at Varick Street and Houston Street, Lower Manhattan. Well, with all the hubbub over the jump in the murder rate, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly can't be too happy about this one: two relatively ... More >>

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Orlando Salgado, 26, Stabbed While Defending a Teen From Thugs

​ DATE: Friday, March, 19, 2010, 10:39 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 397 E 197 St., Bedford Park, The Bronx. Orlando Salgado, 26, of Decatur Street in the Bronx, was stabbed fatally outside the above address. He was stabbed at least twice in the chest. Paramedics took him to St. Barnabas Hospit ... More >>

Mario Alberto Canton Quijada, 25, Stabbed to Death on Rockaway Beach

​ Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:34 a.m. Location: Beach 12 Street and the Boardwalk, Far Rockaway, Queens. Mario Alberto Canton Quijada, 25, of Beach Channel Drive, was fatally stabbed early Wednesday. His body was found after police officers on patrol spotted three men loitering on th ... More >>

City Kids Getting All Stabby

​A rash of stabbings have been reported around town: NY1 says Christopher Batres, 17, was stabbed by a fellow student at Newtown High School in Flushing this morning -- one Brian Goody, 16, is suspected -- and at the High School for Media and Communications in Washington Heights, a 16-year-ol ... More >>

Luis Johnson, 29, of Staten Island, Slain in the Village

View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:51 p.m.LOCATION: in the rear of 20 Avenue D, East Village, Manhattan.Luis Johnson, 29, of Amboy Road in Staten Island, was stabbed fatally last night near an East Village public housing development during a street brawl. Johnson was stabbed in one arm ... More >>

Bushwick Man Stabbed in the Neck, One Arrest

View Larger Map Date: Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010, 5:10 p.m. Location: Inside of 138 Schaefer St., Bushwick, Brooklyn. The police say a 43-year-old man was found stabbed in the neck Wednesday afternoon. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital where he was declared dead. Police arrested a 24-year-old ma ... More >>

Adan Gonzalez, Medical Assistant, Mourned; Community Calls for an Arrest

​It took a few days, but the police have finally released the identity of a man who was fatally stabbed Saturday morning. His name is Adan Gonzalez, 28, of East 106th Street. He was a medical assistant in the urology department at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. A friend of his posted to her blog ... More >>

Anthony Illidge Slay Suspect Jahaad Chesson Says He was 'High As a Motherfucker'

View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2010. LOCATION: 17 Slaight St., Port Richmond, Staten Island. Jahaad Chesson, the accused killer of a Staten Island man told reporters yesterday he was "high as a motherfucker when I did it." The statement kind of, sort of sounded like a confession to the ... More >>

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