UPDATE II: Monday, November 18 at 9 a.m.: According to multiple publications, including CBS News, the deadly stabbing on Friday took place after a neighbor called Alfred Soto, who lived on the 11th floor of the 96th Street building, saying that her 19-year-old daughter was being threatened within their apartment on the sixth floor.
Soto ran down the stairs to the apartment, where he was met with four to five men who were trying to get into the sixth floor apartment and take a dog, CBS News reported.
A confrontation ensued and Soto was stabbed twice in the stomach and chest, police said. He was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition, where he died, NYPD added.
The group of men fled in a U-Haul vehicle and there have been no arrests as of Monday morning.
The 19-year-old woman was not injured during the confrontation.
“He (Soto) did what he had to do to try to protect this woman’s daughter, and I’m glad she was protected, but unfortunately, he lost his life,” Soto’s sister told CBS News.
The investigation remains ongoing.
UPDATE: Saturday, November 16 at 10:30 a.m.: Alfred Soto, 46, was identified by police as the victim in the Friday morning stabbing on the Upper West Side.
Soto was a resident of the 65 West 96th Street building, where the attack took place, police said.
NYPD are looking for four to five men who fled the building in a U-Haul vehicle, according to multiple publications, including the Daily News. Sota was a father of three, and recently lost his mother to cancer, his cousin told the Daily News.
There have been no arrests as of Saturday morning.
It remains unclear what specifically happened in the lead up to the stabbing.
Original Story
By Gus Saltonstall
A man was stabbed and killed Friday morning on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
Police received a 911 call around 10:20 a.m. about an assault in progress within 65 West 96th Street, between Columbus and Central Park West, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Upon arrival, officers found a 46-year-old man inside the building who had been stabbed in the stomach and chest, police said. He was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in critical condition, where he died shortly after, police added.
There have been no arrests as of 3:30 p.m. on Friday, police said.
NYPD did not have information on the events that led up to the stabbing.
The victim’s name is being withheld pending proper family notification.
West Side Rag will update this story when we learn more.
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This happened inside an apartment. It was originally reported on the citizens app that a group of 5 men kicked down a ladies door in an attempted robbery. The citizens app even id’d one 38 year old man over the police radio (Different name from the deceased). Only a snippet is available unless You buy the Citizens + feature. I am a local resident and I know several people in that building. That report on Citizens is false and there is a lot more to this story. 3 other accounts reported the same inconsistencies and their comments were removed from the app after a few minutes. The fact that no arrests have been made tells me all I need to know about this neighborhood in 2024. There are several cameras in that building, a doorman that has to let You in past double doors and only 1 elevator that leads to the back of the building. We need answers. RIP and may he rest in peace.
The Citizens app is a concept that has always baffled me. Who wants to be tuned into a channel for crime and misdemeanors all the time? Apparently many people. Crime happens all around us, but I don’t think people are walking around feeling that their lives are so in danger that they need to be alerted every time somebody does as much as yell to another neighbor.
Inside job/deal gone bad ?
96 and CPW!? What is going on in this neighborhood. Crime on 96th St has zoomed. Hopefully there are cameras. Please install more.
Oh, that’s a shame. Fortunately, there are many cameras around that building.
All of this can be solved via tougher sentencing.
I’d be willing to be a LOT that the suspects have been jailed before or have criminal records. Keep them locked up and they can’t commit these additional crimes. Release them and they do.
The sad thing is that the folks who push for relaxed sentencing policies – Rosenthal, Brewer, Seigalman, etc. – don’t have to bear the cost of their ideals. Instead it’s the crime victims that do.
I think I agree. I have asked before and will ask again – WSR does some incredible reporting. It would be great if WSR (or a poster who is a lawyer or judge or otherwise involved in the judicial system) gave a detailed explanation of how sentencing works, who sets the policy on sentencing (I think it is done by the state legislature but not sure?) and everything else.
Because I agree that it seems like there is a lot of recidivism, including a lot of third, fourth, fifth, etc. time offenders. Do penalties go up for each additional crime one is found guilty of? That seems pretty logical to me but I’m not sure if it is the case.
Thanks!
And much more importantly, my condolences to the friends and family of the victim.
Full NY State sentencing index for felonies class A through E is here https://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/felony_sentences.php
The real sad thing is these clowns continuously keep getting voted back in.
It’s really a sad commentary on what’s going on in Manhattan with random attacks, random punches in the face, stabbings, rapes, robberies — and more and more murders.
When you start to pick up an article about a murder in the city and you’re not certain if this is one you already have read about or it’s a new one — and it turns out to be a new murder or stabbing or whatever —
The frequency is such that you almost can’t believe that it’s yet another one. What does this say about our city and what’s transpiring?
When Murder becomes the common place and doesn’t even stand out, that’s one scary scenario!
To poor man who became yet another victim.
This is a city of ~9 million. The last year New York City cleared 900 homicides per year was 15 years ago, during the Bloomberg era.
It’s about as safe as it’s ever been https://criminaljustice.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-Shootings-and-Murder-factsheet_January-2021.pdf
And you know what, we had a year with 400 homicides, so let’s go back to that rather than say, well, it was worse in the past.
I was literally across the street around that time (of the police/paramedics/FDNY response) – was on the way to the Friday Farmer’s Market, and was wondering what that could be about, especially with the smoke odor in the air. I certainly did not think there was a murder in the building! As it happened, the daycare on 96th off of Columbus (literally across the street) were all out on the sidewalk due to some fire-alarm issue. Yikes for thinking of all these little ones on the sidewalk (even with all the careful and gentle attending by the daycare staff) with who knows who on the loose. Oy. I hope we’ll find out more about what happened there.
To all the people that just want to jail everyone forever. Then pay more taxes. Because that is what you are saying.
This, I want to pay less but expect more, in an ever increasing competitive marketplace for world resources is based on ignorance or a parroted propaganda.
Get away from all the entertainment news opinions. Learn how to research from reputable, unbiased informational sources. In the least, understand where the opinions of X (Twitter) accounts, Fox, Newsmax, MSNBC, and radio commentary is coming from.
Agreed…Misinformation and lies are ‘killing’ us all
I strongly believe in due process and the penalty fitting the crime – right now the penalties are way too light for the crimes but I don’t want to swing way too far in the other direction either. If the incarcerated population grows a lot, build more jails in less costly areas – I’m not sure of how the law works but land and labor are a lot cheaper 50+ miles outside NYC than it is here, so let’s optimize resources.
Yes, there is a cost to that, but ideally in the long run if more guilty criminals are locked up and additionally many others are deterred from committing crimes by fear of more severe penalties, there will be less crime. As a result, we would need less police. And this would also benefit our local economy in general as NYC would become a more desirable place to live, do business, and visit.
And once again, I am not a Fox News loving Trumper. I am a moderate, common sense Democrat who enthusiastically voted for Kamala Harris and despises Trump. But I also don’t have my head in the sand, pretending there isn’t a problem or saying that it was worse 40 years ago so we don’t need to do anything.
That’s not correct. Things can just be run more efficiently. For instance, NYC spends $40K per year per public school student, yet only $10K reaches the school. May be if there were fewer bureaucrats and they were compensated less lavishly, taxes could be cut and more criminals could be housed in jail.
Totally agree. And I’m happy to pay to lock up the criminals. We already have gone through this “aww the thieves/rapists/murderers are disadvantaged or had unhappy childhoods so let’s not lock them up” cycle once and it didn’t work. This led to the tough on crime laws that absolutely made the streets safer everywhere until a new generation came to power who think they are more clever than everyone else .
Everyone is talking about the assailants what about the victim whose children lost their father. Maybe there is more to the story but this man lost his life helping a neighbor.
Rest in peace