Crime & Safety

Teen Wanted In Deadly College Student Stabbing In Flatiron, NYPD Says

Authorities are looking for an 18-year-old teen in connection with the fatal stabbing of a student who was heading home for Christmas.

Authorities are looking for an 18-year-old teen in connection with the fatal stabbing of a student who was heading home for Christmas.
Authorities are looking for an 18-year-old teen in connection with the fatal stabbing of a student who was heading home for Christmas. (NYPD)

FLATIRON DISTRICT, NY - Authorities are looking for an 18-year-old teen in connection with the fatal stabbing of a college student in Flatiron who was heading home for Christmas.

Photos of Thierno Bah, 18, were released by NYPD Friday in connection with the deadly stabbing of Denzel Bimpey, also 18, police said.

Bimpey, of the Bronx, had just hopped off a bus on Dec. 15 from SUNY Morrisville with plans to spend Christmas with his family, the New York Daily News first reported. He died riddled with stab wounds to his chest, shoulder and arm after a Friday attack in Flatiron, police said.

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Police said they responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress to find wounded Bimpey about 10:40 p.m. near East 26th Street and Park Avenue.

He was at the end of a blood trail a block-and-a-half long, the Daily News first reported.

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Medics rushed Bimpey to Bellevue Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, police said.

Anyone with information in regard to the incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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