Man fatally stabbed at Randall’s Island migrant shelter site, suspect in NYPD custody

A man was fatally knifed outside a migrant shelter on Saturday night and his killer was quickly arrested, police said. A dispute near the front entrance of a with an address of E. 125th St. near the island’s River’s Edge Rd. turned lethal when the 26 year old suspect plunged his blade into a 24 year old man’s chest at about 7:27 p.m., cops said.

Medics rushed the wounded man to but he could not be saved, police said. Cops promptly took the suspect into custody near the shelter. A search was under way late Saturday for three possible accomplices, said police. It was not immediately clear what their dispute was about, police said. The slaying was the second violent incident reported Saturday at a migrant facility.

Two cops suffered minor injuries to their faces and knees when a man assaulted them around 8:20 a.m. as they attempted to control a rowdy crowd outside a migrant center at the former St. Brigid School on E. 7th St. near Avenue B in the East Village, cops said. Angel Gutierrez Medal, 24, was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest..