Fort Washington Park, Alto Manhattan, NYC.
Photo: Mariela Lombard / The NY Journal
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Ricardo Sánchez, a man just 29 years old, was stabbed to death in broad daylight when a fight broke out during a football game in Upper Manhattan.
According to the New York police, Sánchez was playing soccer inside Fort Washington Park at West 165th Street and Riverside Drive shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday, when an acquaintance of his reportedly identified as Ronald Guilcapi, 24, repeatedly stabbed him with a broken bottle during a fight, the police said.
The two men were playing soccer in the park when they got into an argument. Sanchez, a resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His body presented stab wounds to the chest, arm and neck, NYPD said.
Guilicapi fled but was arrested shortly after, according to amNY. The suspect, who lives less than a mile from the scene in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood, was arrested and charged with murder. The circumstances that led to the deadly fight were not clear until last night, he said. New York Post.
All charges are mere accusations and the persons prosecuted are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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