A man was stabbed to death Saturday evening at an immigration processing center on Randall Island in New York City, officials said.
A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department confirmed the stabbing to Fox News Digital.
Police said law enforcement was called to the processing center about an “assault in progress” around 7:20 p.m. Saturday.
When police arrived, they found a 24-year-old man with a stab wound to the chest, police confirmed.
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A 24-year-old immigrant was brutally stabbed to death on Randalls Island in New York City, police have confirmed. (Peter Garber, Fox News Digital)
Doctors rushed the 24-year-old man from the processing center to Harlem Hospital Center.
Despite the efforts of doctors, the unidentified man succumbed to his wounds at the hospital.
Randall's Island Park in New York City is an island in the East River between East Harlem in the South Bronx and Astoria in Queens. (Peter Garber, Fox News Digital)
Police took a 26-year-old boy into custody. No fees were charged.
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The suspect's identity has not been released.
A 24-year-old immigrant was brutally stabbed to death on Randalls Island in New York City, police have confirmed. (Peter Garber, Fox News Digital)
Responding law enforcement personnel were seen inside and outside the facility as the Big Apple prepared for its first nor'easter of the season.
More than 157,600 immigrants have arrived in New York City since last spring, according to city data.
In August 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Randall's Island as a new taxpayer-funded tent city for illegal immigrants.
Randall Island became a taxpayer-funded migrant tent city in August 2023. (Peter Garber, Fox News Digital)
The illegal migrant shelter can hold 57,000 migrants.
Over 50,000 people in New York City Migrants in the Shelter System It has become one of the most publicized immigration crises on the East Coast.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressed the immigration crisis during a town hall meeting on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. (New York Mayor's Office)
Adams recently said the sanctuary city had “run out of room” for new immigrants and even declared a “state of emergency” in the city to combat the crisis.
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Mayor Eric Adams' office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
FOX News' Houston Keene contributed to this report.
