Man Fatally Stabbed With Broken Beer Bottle At New Year's Eve Party

TAMPA, FL — A 37-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of stabbing a person to death with a broken beer bottle at a New Year's Eve party.

Plasido Castro Bibiano has been charged with second-degree murder with a weapon.

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, around 5:15 a.m. on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, deputies were called to the 1500 block of University Woods Place in the Palm Flats Apartments for a stabbing. When they arrived, deputies said they found a man in the road with multiple stab wounds. Despite life-saving measures by Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, the man died.

Detectives learned the victim arrived at an outdoor New Year’s Eve party with two other people and, at some point, became involved in a fight with Bibiano. During the fight, deputies said Bibiano broke a beer bottle and began stabbing the other man.

"This is not the way to start the new year," said Sheriff Chad Chronister. " When anger turns into violence, lives can be lost, and families destroyed. This suspect is now facing serious charges."