A 25-year-old man was reportedly stabbed in the shoulder after being attacked at the Randall's Island migrant shelter in New York City.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital that the man was stabbed at the migrant shelter by two shelter residents on Friday afternoon at 8 p.m.
Police said authorities arrested two suspects, identified as brothers Josué Deleon, 19, and Moisés Deleon, 27. Both were charged with assault, police confirmed.
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Randall's Island Immigrant Shelter (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The New York Post reported, citing sources, that an altercation broke out between two groups at the shelter following a separate stabbing earlier in the day.
The relationship between the victim and the suspects is still unknown.
Police tape surrounds the scene of a previous incident on Randall's Island in New York City, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. NYPD sources report that a person was stabbed in the neck during an altercation at the shelter for migrants from the island. (Peter Gerber)
The most recent incident came after a series of attacks at the New York City migrant shelter.
In April, five men were arrested by the NYPD after they allegedly lunged at another man in his bed and injured a security guard during the fight.
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The five men, ages 20 to 33, were accused of hitting another man while he was eating in his bed shortly before 2 a.m. at the shelter on East 125 Street.
He herd of immigrants They surrounded the bed and hit and scratched the victim “all over his head, face” and legs, police said.
All five men are charged with third-degree assault and harassment.
A 26-year-old man was arrested after the fatal stabbing and responding officers are searching for three more possible accomplices. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
In February, police arrested two other immigrants at the same facility when the two allegedly punched another security guard in two separate altercations that same night.
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In that incident, officers responding to a 911 call about the first assault witnessed the second assault when a migrant began attacking the security guard while police were trying to talk to him, the The New York Post reported.
Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
