A 17-year-old woman is dealing with homicide prices in a mindless spat that devolved into the deadly stabbing of one other teen, who bled to demise after the mindless dispute at a Bronx deli on Tuesday afternoon.
“She was losing so much blood,” a employee at a close-by store on Boston Highway advised The Put up, describing the final moments of life for Aliya Williams, 16, following the 4 p.m. stabbing assault at Deli Grocery.
“She tried, she was holding my arm, grabbing my arm,” mentioned the person, an worker at Upcakes Cupcakes and Treats who requested to not be recognized. “I’m making an attempt to make her settle down, however she wasn’t calming down, after which feeling her pulse, after which her pulse goes fast, gradual, fast, gradual. And I’m like, OK, this isn’t good.
“I would say she probably died in my arms right then and there,” he mentioned. “I noticed she didn’t have a pulse and she left at that moment.”
Police mentioned the mortally wounded teen, who was stabbed a number of instances within the face, chest and physique, was taken to Jacobi Hospital Medical Heart, the place she was pronounced useless.
The lethal encounter started as an argument between the 2 women contained in the Williamsbridge retailer that escalated and turned bloody, the useless teen’s grandmother mentioned after the incident.
Lower than 4 hours later, police made an arrest within the case, with the 17-year-old charged with homicide, manslaughter and prison possession of a weapon — with the woman’s age withheld because of her age.
“I knew this was going to happen,” mentioned a enterprise proprietor close to the scene of the stabbing who requested to not be named. “It’s a different type of customer that goes there. I got a lot of text messages asking, ‘Is this the shop?’ I’m afraid people are not going to want to come in.”
In the meantime, neighbors of the teenager charged within the stabbing had been shocked by the crime.
“I’m absolutely shocked,” one tenant of the Mickle Avenue constructing mentioned. “The only people you hear about dying in this neighborhood are the elderly.”
