Police Search For 5 After Fatal Midtown Pier 84 Stabbing: NYPD

MIDTOWN, NY — Police are on the hunt for five people in connection to a fatal stabbing on Pier 84 early Thursday morning, officials said.

A man with a "Caesar hair style" fatally knifed a 35-year-old man inside the bucolic park near West 44th Street about 6 a.m. Thursday morning, police said.

The stabber, who wore light shorts, walked into the park with four other people who are wanted for questioning, said police.

The victim was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Morningside and his identity is being withheld pending family notification, officials said.

Police released surveillance images of the people being sought and asked that anyone with information in regard to this incident to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).