The fatal migrant stabbing at the Randall’s Island tent city was over a woman, law-enforcement sources said Sunday — while asylum-seekers described life in the shelter as full of armed rivals and divisive “camps.”
The 24-year-old victim was inside the cafeteria tent at the sprawling shelter shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday when he got into a beef with a fellow asylum-seeker who had been talking to the man’s girlfriend, sources told The Post.
During the dispute, the victim was assaulted by four people, sources said. One of the suspects, 26, then whipped out a knife and stabbed the victim in the neck and chest area, sources said.
The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police recovered the knife at the scene and arrested the suspected stabber, while his three accomplices are in the wind, sources said.
Venezuelan immigrant Roger Castillo said of the dead man, “He was a good person, he was a good friend.
“There is not much security, and they are far away,” Castillo said of guards. “It happens so fast.”
Migrants at the makeshift shelter, which was erected last year to house the overflow of migrants flooding into the five boroughs from the US border, have been problematic, some asylum-seekers said.
They said some of the migrants around them have split into “camps” based on their ethnicity and native countries, with Hispanics, Africans and Haitians occasionally at odds, while many are armed with knives and typically petty crimes can be rampant.
“Everyone has a knife,” migrant Mauricio Pinto said.
The migrants said tensions are high particularly because there is only one cafeteria facility on the site, which forces members of each camp to rub elbows.
Fatal NYC migrant stabbing was over woman — in tent city filled with armed rivals, split ‘camps,’ sources say
Some migrants have split into “camps” based on their ethnicity and native countries, with Hispanics, Africans and Haitians occasionally at odds, while many are armed with knives and typ…
How desperate are they really if they can't control themselves and are stealing, fucking, and can't use the same cafeteria.
We are going to have to treat them like elementary school age children and have them eat at different times
They should release pictures because you know they are going to just be released and told to pretty please come back to court
The man who lost his life seems like he was shit too. How long before his taco links up with someone else?
I guess a coyote did not tell him America is home to the desperate bitch looking for a live in penis & babybeater in every town or city you go to
