One Dead, One Hospitalized After Attack in Park Slope

Intersection of 12th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope.

[UPDATE BELOW] Two men were allegedly attacked last night around 12th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope. One witness writes us:

I'm pretty sure someone was killed or almost killed in the intersection of 12th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope last night around midnight. My friend and I were walking back to my apartment at 12:30, and we saw a ton of ambulances and the whole intersection cornered off. There was blood all over the sidewalk, and someone said that a man was attacked by someone else with a fucking CROWBAR. He said, "They put him in the ambulance, but I don't think he would've made it." Seems like it was personal.

We contacted the NYPD who told us that two Hispanic men were taken to different hospitals last night. One, 22, was pronounced dead at Methodist hospital while the other is being treated for multiple stab wounds at Lutheran. He is in stable condition.

[UPDATE 2:00 P.M.] Cops confirm that one victim was "bashed in the head with a blunt object," though they have not said if it was a crowbar. The two were reportedly attacked by a group of men, but no arrests have been made yet.

[UPDATE 3:35 P.M.] According to the Daily News, cops are now saying a mob of about 20 bashed one man to death with a tire iron. They seem to have attacked both victims from opposite sides of the street, and left the tire iron and several crowbars at the scene after they fled. The victim who died has been identified as Alex Santiago of Brooklyn.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on August 1, 2010 3:36 PM

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40oz.killa

I think its a good time to invest in a gun

gerf

It's nearly impossible for a law abiding resident to obtain a gun and carry it legally in nyc. It's only the criminals that have them

Cee

no its that these young punks dont know how to have a fair fight!!!and dont know how to take a loss they aint real men they SUCKAS!!!!!!!!and deserve whatever life throws at them !!!!!!!!1

nicemarmot

Gang related anyone? I don't think you have 20 guys jump you with crowbars and tire irons over a personal vendetta.

whitecastlerock

Another Hispanic man was beaten to death by chains last week in Corona. This shit is disgusting.

ides_of_march

If he were another ethnicity would you find it less disgusting? If any innocent human being is murdered, we should see it as just that, a human being murdered. This obsession with racial politics has created a caste system of victimhood. We should be disgusted by murder regardless of the victim's or perpetrator's race.

whitecastlerock

I am disgusted by murder. Read my fucking comment dickface...

ides_of_march

Your original comment isn't clear if you were only upset that it was an hispanic man murdered. Put it like this, if a white guy had been slain and I lamented it only in the context of his race, I'd get called every name in the book including the juvenile insult you just spat out at me.

whitecastlerock

My comment was crystal clear. Another Hispanic man was savagely beaten to death and you want to analyze my feelings and sentiments? Then make it all about you? You get called all types of names because you are a complete fucking idiot. No one deserves to die like this.

gerf

correction they were black and some possibly hispanic.

What now, simpleton?

gerf

the mob of 20 were blacks, moron

gerf

the mob of 20 were blacks, moron

LMAO

i was also going to point out that the complextion of park slope has change over the last 30 yrs.i doubt if he knows anything about nyc.

gerf

it's not that the demographics of park slope residents have change. It was just a group of people driving through the area

LMAO

back in the 70's park slope was irish catholic.

gerf

was meant for PK

John L

Can someone send a memo to Bloomberg and Ray Kelly and tell them that no matter how much they play with the Compstat numbers the fact is that people are dying and NY is getting worse and worse by the day and the "Stop & Frisk" tactic is not stopping or even slowing down this surge in crime.

Ray Kelly has to go, the NYPD needs new leadership with new ideas and tactics.

eldukes

Say PK, why don't you go pitch your apocalyptic race war screed over on stormfront? I'm sure the folks over there will share your perfectly reasonable terror at the prospect of our pristine suburban streets running red with the blood of indiscriminately slaughtered aryan babies. Better yet, get yourself locked up somewhere out west - I'm sure the Aryan Brotherhood could use somebody like you in whatever race war they've got going on with the other tatooed scumbags inside. . .

Keep fightin that good fight brother! Win yourself that spiderweb!

DanielJ

You are AWESOME.

Guest

even if the attackers are white -- and in no way do we even know that "fact" -- it's just wrong to generalize a whole population based on a few people. so how do you go from a few people to an entire race? or are you already angry and fed-up to begin with even before any "white" person laid their hands on hispanic people?

some people's responses bare what is truly in their hearts.

now, go back in your head and feel good. a good friend of mine once told me that 'sinning' really means being 'stuck.' so don't get 'stuck' with anger in your heart, you may be sinning. at least to christians.