The mother of a 33-year-old man who was fatally beaten in a Forest Hills nightclub Friday night is pleading for witnesses to come forward. Haroon Walfall was at the subterranean Bartinis Lounge with a cousin and a friend when he got into an altercation with at least ten men, NYPD sources tell NY1. Walfall's mother Beverley Waide tells WABC, "He was talking to this girl. Apparently she had her boyfriend there. And maybe he got jealous and he attacked my son. And his friends came at him and they started beating him. They were all stomping at him. Stomping at his face with his boots." Walfall also believes the bouncers were involved in the fatal beating.
"I would like to get to the bottom of this and see what kind of management is running this club and what kind of security they have to protect the people, when the security themselves are attacking the people who visit the club," Walfall tells NY1. After a bouncer ejected Walfall from the club, his cousin took him to Franklin General Hospital, where he later died. The NYPD says the investigation is ongoing, but no arrests have been made.