Stabbing leaves 1 dead at New York City migrant shelter; 2nd resident charged with murder | CityNews Calgary

A 27-year-old resident of a New York City migrant shelter was charged with homicide Sunday within the deadly stabbing of one other resident, police mentioned.

Police had been known as to the Randall’s Island shelter round 7:30 p.m. Saturday for a report of an assault in progress. The sufferer, stabbed within the torso, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

The suspect was taken into custody on the scene, police mentioned.

Mayor Eric Adams in August introduced a plan to accommodate as many as 2,000 migrants on the island within the East River amid an inflow of asylum seekers to the town. More than 161,000 migrants have arrived and sought metropolis support since spring 2022, Adams and different officers mentioned final month.

The Associated Press