A 45-year-old suspect is accused of stabbing his 19-year-old neighbor to death during an argument over a parking spot in the Bronx on Thursday morning, ABC 7 News reports.
The suspect, Vladimir López German, was charged by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) with manslaughter. murder Criminal possession of weapons, its outlet report.
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ABC 7 News reports that German is suspected of stabbing teenage boy Dominic Acriella in the chest during an argument over where to park his car.German allegedly told boy to move car, CBS News I got it.. (Related: Man convicted of killing friend who allegedly tried to feed Bigfoot: Report)
After being stabbed, Aquilera ran to a nearby store where a woman named Wendy Reynoso was employed, seeking help, ABC 7 News reported.
“I kept screaming and saying, ‘He’s going to die, he’s going to die,'” Reynoso told the outlet. “It’s sad to see a young person lose their life in such a way.”
Reynoso said he witnessed the boy die.
“When the kid came in bleeding. I called 911. He was bleeding profusely. I told them, ‘Please put him down.’ Because he will fall.As soon as you say that (sic), He – we kept the blood.I think he just passed right by there,” Reynoso told Fox 5 New York. report.
The boy was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, ABC 7 News reported.
“Honestly, he was a beautiful person,” Acriella’s brother told the magazine. “The best brother ever. I’m not saying that because he’s gone. He always had my back.”
Witnesses said German was a taxi driver with a wife and a young child, according to CBS News. They also said the Germans fled the scene in a car before being arrested.
