A stateless 21-year-old antheral was stabbed to decease successful a Brooklyn playground Tuesday morning, constabulary said.
The country of the slaying, Clinton Hill’s Steuben Playground, is wherever a Venezuelan migrant was changeable to decease earlier this year.
In the latest violence, the unfortunate was stabbed successful the tummy during a confrontation with a antheral adjacent Flushing Ave. and Steuben St. astir 8:45 a.m.
Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dormant astatine 9:20 a.m., constabulary said.
The unfortunate lived successful a migrant shelter connected adjacent Ryerson St., though his migration presumption was not instantly clear.
In July, two men were shot extracurricular the aforesaid structure by a moped rider who jumped disconnected the conveyance and opened fire, striking the intended target, Enny DeJesus Urbina Mendez, 21, and different man, Francisco Fuentes Rangel, 59. The younger unfortunate died that night, the different unfortunate 2 days later.
The shooter got backmost connected the moped and fled with the driver. They crashed astir 2 minutes aboriginal and constabulary arrested Jorge Said Benitez Villa, 26, who broke his hep successful the smash up. His accomplice is inactive being sought.
Police astatine archetypal thought the treble execution was connected to the playground shooting, which occurred 7 minutes earlier, and that they were each sparked by ongoing tensions betwixt the notorious Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua and an offshoot, Anti-Tren.
But cops aboriginal determined the playground shooting, dissimilar the structure slayings, was not related to those tensions, with constabulary charging a metropolis Parks Department cleaner, Elijah Michell, with allegedly shooting Arturo Jose Rodriguez-Marcano, 30. Michell is charged with execution arsenic a hatred crime.
According to prosecutors, Mitchell and Rodriguez Marcano got into a heated statement astir a migrant structure successful the parkland connected July 18, erstwhile Mitchell ranted astir the encampment and started tearing down the tarps.
Mitchell past retreated to his car, lone to instrumentality to face Rodriguez Marcano by lifting his garment and revealing a weapon — but was held backmost by different parkland workers, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney.
Three days later, portion disconnected duty, Mitchell went backmost to the parkland and changeable Rodriguez Marcano successful the thorax portion the unfortunate was sleeping, prosecutors said.