Two more suspects charged in Randalls Island migrant center stab slay

Two more suspects have been charged in the waiting in the food line at the Randalls Island migrant shelter, police said Tuesday. Ferneys Horta, 33, is charged with murder and and Anthony Havas, 27, is charged with gang assault. They were nabbed Monday, two days after Dafren Alexis Canizales Ceballo was slain, police said.

A day before their arrest, Moises Coronado, 27, was charged with murder and ordered held without bail. The fatal confrontation about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Assistant District Attorney Aryan Ahmadian said during Coronado’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Sunday night. The victim and Coronado got into an argument after Coronado said something to the victim’s girlfriend, Ahmadian said.

Coronado’s friends surrounded Canizales Ceballo, who punched Coronado in the face, Ahmadian said. That’s when Coronado and at least others pulled out knives and started chasing him, trapping him against a closed door, at which point Coronado stabbed the victim, Ahmadian added. The victim died at Harlem Hospital.

“I feel very bad knowing that my brother is dead,” the victim’s brother Eduin Daniel Nobrega told the Daily News in Spanish. The siblings arrived in Texas together last month. The victim’s brother is currently in Denver. “My brother was a good, responsible father, a good son and a good brother,” Daniel Nobrega said.

“One day we decided to leave our country of Venezuela for a better future, help our children and family. He was not a man of trouble. He really liked to work to earn an honest living. Coronado had a pocket knife in his pocket when he was arrested. He admitted to chasing Canizales Ceballo but denied stabbing him, the prosecutor said.

Horta and Havas were awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused more than 33,600 asylum seekers to New York City..