Man, 46, stabbed dead in Upper West Side apartment

A 46-year-old antheral was stabbed to decease successful an Upper West Side flat Friday morning, constabulary said.

Officers responding to a 911 telephone recovered the unfortunate suffering 2 stab wounds successful the precocious assemblage astatine a W. 96th St. flat gathering adjacent Columbus Ave. astatine 10:20 a.m.

A 46-year-old antheral was stabbed to decease successful an Upper West Side flat Friday morning, constabulary said. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)

Medics rushed him to St. Luke’s Hospital, where helium died astatine 11:14 a.m.

Police are seeking 4 to 5 men seen fleeing the country successful a U-Haul vehicle.

The unfortunate is simply a begetter of 3 whose parent died past month, according to a cousin, who said this latest calamity has near his household reeling.

“He mightiness not person been a saint but helium was a bully person. He didn’t merit what happened to him, let’s conscionable accidental that,” the 51-year-old cousin, who gave his sanction arsenic John, told a Daily News newsman astatine the scene. “I’m conscionable inactive trying to find retired much accusation and I person to cheque connected my moms due to the fact that she took it beauteous hard.”

“He’s a father, I believe, I wanna accidental 3 kids. Like I said, helium wasn’t a saint, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. But helium didn’t merit what happened to him.”

Originally Published: November 15, 2024 astatine 4:05 PM EST