Crime & Safety

Stabber Kills Childhood Classmate In Brooklyn: NYPD, Report

Police arrested a man they say stabbed three people — one a childhood classmate — outside a Williamsburg bodega.

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WILLIAMSBURG, NY — A man accused of fatally stabbing a childhood classmate and slashing two others in Williamsburg was arrested Wednesday, according to police and reports

Roger Collado, 38, of Brooklyn, stands accused of slashing the three outside a bodega on Roebling and South 9th streets — an attack the victim's family is calling "premeditated," according to the NYPD and Daily News.

Collado was taking photos of Severiano "John" Reyes inside the shop on July 18 and the two began fighting — at which point Collado stabbed Reyes, his 27-year-old cousin and a 45-year-old man, according to the Daily News and police.

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Reyes was rushed to an area hospital and pronounced dead, police said. The two others were in stable condition.

Police had their eyes on Collado for the stabbing since late July.

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Family told the Daily News Collado and Reyes were in special education class as children — and that Collado had approached Reyes weeks before offering a vague threat.

"I never thought I’d be the girl that would have to bury my kids’ father,” Reyes’ longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Cintron, told the Daily News. Reyes had four children.

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