Homeless Dad Fatally Stabbed In Queens Gas Station Fight: NYPD, Report

QUEENS, NY — A homeless man living in a car with his family was stabbed to death Thursday during an argument at the Queens gas station where he usually parks his vehicle, according to police and reports.

Shortly before midnight Thursday, Curtis Rippe, 58, was fatally stabbed in the chest during a confrontation with two men at the Mobil gas station on Horace Harding Expressway near 108th Street, police said.

The 58-year-old man — who reportedly lives in the car with his family and parks it in the break-in-prone gas station lot as a security measure — was rushed to a nearby hospital, but doctors couldn't save his life, according to the NYPD.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man who they believe was involved in the stabbing, but the investigation remains ongoing as officers look for a second suspect, police said.

NYPD sources told the New York Daily News that the two men who stabbed Rippe got into a fight with his wife and son at the gas station minutes before he was killed.

Rippe was there when the fight with his family happened, but it doesn't seem like his wife or son saw him get murdered, police told the outlet.

The stabbing in Queens came shortly before another man was stabbed to death in Manhattan. The incidents, though, don't appear to be related.