A Libyan war refugee has been arrested and charged with fatally stabbing an acquaintance inside his Astoria apartment. Police say that 35-year-old Wahid Elawame stabbed 28-year-old Mrwan Said (also of Queens) inside Elawame’s four-bedroom home on Steinway Street, near 28th Avenue, around 11:30 p.m. Friday. Two of Elawame's roommates jumped out of the window of the second floor apartment when the stabbing started; and according to the Post, the stabbing happened because Said didn't want to take part in an alleged plot to kill Elawame’s boss, Sammy Zebib, the Layali Beirut Cafe and Restaurant owner who had refused to give Elawame more work. more ›

A 19-year-old Bronx teen is in critical condition after he was stabbed repeatedly during a subway fight over an iPhone early yesterday morning. Police have now arrested 22-year-old Victor Montalvo and 21-year-old Maritza Lopez in the stabbing of teen Alexander Herald; both have been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct. Below, you can see a surveillance video of the suspects. more ›

A 19-year-old Bronx teen is in critical condition after he was stabbed repeatedly during a subway fight over an iPhone early this morning. According to police, the incident happened at the Fordham train station just after 4 a.m. today—the victim is currently in critical but stable condition at St. Barnabas hospital after suffering multiple stab wounds in the face and body during the scuffle. more ›

Around 10:30 this morning, a police officer was stabbed in the skull while responding to a call about an emotionally disturbed man. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly showed the knife, with a 3.5" blade, to the media and said, "Today is another reminder that in a split second, a police officer’s life can be placed in great jeopardy." Kelly said that the "blade penetrated the brain" of Officer Eder Loor, 28. Loor underwent immediate surgery and doctors are "cautiously optimistic." more ›

A week ago, a Staten Island man was fatally stabbed outside of a restaurant where he and his high school sweetheart had been celebrating their recent engagement. Suspect Redinal Dervishaj was tracked down in Chicago this week and arraigned Friday on murder charges in the stabbing of 27-year-old Antonio Lacertosa. Despite fleeing the state after the incident, Dervishaj's lawyer claims that his client acted in self-defense: "I believe there were several people who were potentially attacking my client," lawyer Thomas Reilly said outside Staten Island Criminal Court. "It looks like he has a decent self-defense case." more ›

Early Saturday morning, a Staten Island man was fatally stabbed outside of a restaurant where he and his high school sweetheart had been celebrating their recent engagement. Police are still searching for the suspect—believed to be a kitchen worker at España Restaurant—who stabbed 27-year-old Antonio Lacertosa, but more details have emerged about the fight which precipitated the death. One police source described surveillance video of the fight to SILive: “The video was like a WWF Royal Rumble...People were being tossed on top of cars; it was crazy.” And other witnesses claim that the restaurant's manager had tried to shoot them, which is when Lacertosa intervened to stop him: "He went to pull the trigger again, and that’s when Anthony saved my life. Anthony attacked him.” more ›

Early Saturday morning, a Staten Island man was fatally stabbed outside of a restaurant where he and his high school sweetheart had been celebrating their recent engagement. Witnesses say that a kitchen worker at España Restaurant stabbed Antonio Lacertosa, 27, around 2 a.m. after a brawl had broken out that Lacertosa wasn't initially part of. According to the Post, Lacertosa had gone outside to check on his brothers, who had gotten kicked out of the restaurant and retaliated by urinating against the wall of a restaurant, sparking the fight. more ›

A Staten Island man was fatally stabbed outside of a restaurant where he and his fiancee had been celebrating their recent engagement. According to the Times, Antonio Lacertosa, 27, went to check on an argument happening outside España Restaurant around 2 a.m. this morning when a man—possibly an employee of the restaurant—stabbed him in the torso with a knife. “He had everything,” said his sister Antonia Lacertosa. “He would have made a great father.” more ›

The Morgan Stanley executive charged with assault, theft of services and second-degree intimidation based on race or bigotry after allegedly stabbing a cab driver in a dispute over a fare pleaded not guilty to hate crime charges today. William Bryan Jennings, who has been placed on leave from his $2 million-a-year job as co-head of fixed income and capital markets at Morgan Stanley, left Stamford Superior Court without commenting to reporters. But the Post was there to document the lines on his face, saying he was "sporting a misplaced smirk on his mug throughout this morning’s appearance." more ›

This week, an executive with Morgan Stanley was charged with assault, theft of services and second-degree intimidation based on race or bigotry after allegedly stabbing a cab driver in a dispute over a fare. Yesterday, cab driver Mohammed Ammar described the incident to the Post, claiming that William Bryan Jennings screamed, threatened and stabbed him after he refused to pay the full fare. Today, Jennings lawyer talked to the Post to once again insist that his client had been abducted by Ammar. But it was also revealed that Jennings flew to Florida the day after the incident for a well-timed vacation. more ›

A 4-month-old girl was stabbed in the forehead with a pen when her mother and another woman got into a fight in the Bronx yesterday. The mom told police she was holding her daughter in her arms when the woman confronted her on E. 165th Street near Union Avenue just before 5 P.M. “The mother was desperate, kneeling next to the baby stroller. She was on her knees,” witness John Martinez told the Daily News. more ›

An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend a friend's birthday party, and had joined some pals to toss a football around in the parking lot around 11:30 p.m. An NYPD spokesman tells us that he was fatally stabbed in the torso during a confrontation with another group who appeared in the parking lot, located on Grand Street between Lorimer and Leonard. Soto was pronounced dead on arrival at Woodhull hospital. more ›

Oh, Staten Island—why? In the latest unfortunate knife-y incident on Status Island we have two sisters who went and stabbed a mother and daughter in the breast and arm, respectively, over an iPod Touch. more ›

What was supposed to be a night of drinking, TV-watching, and "hanging out" turned deadly Friday night for Vinegar Hill resident Marcquel McDuffy, whose buddy allegedly stabbed him to death after a little friendly roughhousing spiraled out of control. "They were drinking together and then he took out a knife and stabbed him," the victim’s brother, Kenneth McDuffy, tells the Daily News. "They had no beef before then." A police source adds, "They were hanging out, joking around." Then, for reasons that remain unclear, McDuffy's "buddy" Keylester Williams allegedly plunged a knife into his neck and chest. more ›

A man was stabbed and beaten over the head with a beer bottle at a Chelsea nightclub around 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to DNAinfo, the incident occurred at The Shadow on West 28th Street, and the victim was transported to Bellevue with injuries that were not life-threatening. Authorities were called to the scene to control the crowd, but it's unclear what caused the altercation. more ›

Yesterday, police responding to reports of a jumper in Bed-Stuy instead found a young mother cradling her fatally wounded two-year-old daughter while babbling incoherently. The little girl, Cathryn Nwegbo, had wounds to her neck, “major bleeding to the back of her head,” and appeared to have "evidence of strangulation." She was pronounced dead at Woodhull Medical Center. The mother, 29-year-old Brandis Nwegbo, was reportedly babbling things about the girl being possessed by demons: “The monsters are coming from my baby. God wasn’t there for her, so I had to save her.” She has since been taken to Woodhull for a psychiatric evaluation. more ›

Police are investigating the death of a young girl, apparently stabbed in the head with strangulation marks around her neck, in Bed-Stuy this morning. The three-year-old toddler was attacked, apparently by her mother, inside a Putnam Avenue apartment a little after 4 a.m. this morning. more ›

Police have arrested an ex-girlfriend of a 53-year-old man found brutally stabbed to death on the bathroom floor in his Lefferts Gardens apartment yesterday. The body of Melvin Vargas was found by his building superintendent and his brother Thursday morning. "When they opened the door, we saw everything broken and there was blood on the wall," Sal Vargas told CBS. more ›

Police have released part of the confession of the Bronx man who is accused of fatally stabbing an Italian college student to death. Bakary Camara, 41, who once dated Borough of Manhattan Community College student and part-time waitress Rita Morelli, has been charged with second-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty to murder from his hospital bed in Bellevue yesterday, but cops say Camara already admitted to the crime when cops found him, saying: "I killed Rita." more ›

A 16-year-old Brooklyn student has been charged with allegedly stabbing a classmate in the head with a pair of scissors yesterday. Chevoy Nelson, who has been described by school officials as a special education student who is emotionally disturbed, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in yesterday's attack at Brooklyn Erasmus High School. Victim Alfredo Allen, 15, underwent extensive surgery, but remains in critical condition. more ›

Cyclists are used to dealing with hostility from sociopath drivers, but last night a biker turned on one of his own. The FDNY and the NYPD tell us they have no information about the incident, but the NYPD tells NY1 that a cyclist in his 30s was stabbed in his chest and back. The stabbing happened around 7 p.m. on the corner of Ninth Avenue and 49th Street. more ›

An MTA supervisor allegedly stabbed a coworker during a fight at a Bronx subway station today. According to the News, 41-year-old MTA supervisor Alex Davis pulled a knife on colleague Kenneth Palacios at the Allerton Avenue 2/5 line stop in Bronxdale around 8 a.m. “It happened at the street on the job site. [Palacios] walked up to me and told me he just got stabbed. He said the guy just walked up to him and stabbed him. He was calm,” said another MTA worker, Clarence St. John. more ›

A woman pregnant with twins has been arrested and accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend after they fought in her Washington Heights apartment early yesterday morning. Kelly Lopez-Roldan, 22, was arrested for the murder of 24-year-old Antoine Scott. He was found with stab wounds to his chest shortly before 2:30 a.m. at 450 W. 164th Street. And sources tell the Post that Lopez-Roldan plans to argue she committed the act in self-defense. more ›

The Bronx man accused of fatally stabbing an Italian college student to death last week claimed in a confession that he was possessed by an "evil spell." Bakary Camara, 41, who once dated Borough of Manhattan Community College student and part-time waitress Rita Morelli, has been charged with second-degree murder. And according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the "somewhat rambling" three-page note explains his motivation: "There was some sort of evil spell placed over him, and that's why he did it." more ›

Police arrested a Bronx man yesterday who is accused of fatally stabbing a 36-year-old woman in her East Harlem apartment last week. Borough of Manhattan Community College student and waitress Rita Morrelli was discovered by her live-in boyfriend with her throat slashed in their East 120th Street studio apartment last Wednesday. And police say that as they closed in to arrest him, they found a suicidal Bakary Camara stabbing himself in the stomach on his couch. “He made admissions about killing [Morelli],” a police source told the News. more ›

A Queens teen was fatally shot in the head during a violent 24-hour period between Thanksgiving and Black Friday. According to police, 18-year-old Eric Norman was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in the driveway of a home on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway around 10 p.m. Thursday. According to the Daily News, there were seven other shootings during that 24-hour period. more ›

A 36-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her East Harlem apartment on Wednesday evening. Police say Hunter College student and waitress Rita Morrelli had her throat slashed, and was discovered by her live-in boyfriend in their East 120th Street studio apartment at around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday night. “She was always in a rush, either going to work or going to class. Always moving. She was very sweet,” neighbor Cicely Black told the Post. more ›

More details have emerged about the man who was stabbed on a Park Slope subway yesterday—while initial reports said that the incident occurred on the G train, the Daily News says it was an F train, and the spat began over some anti-Semitic comments. more ›