Homeless Man Charged In Brutal Rockaway Death: NYPD

QUEENS, NY — A man found stabbed, slashed and brutalized inside a Rockaway home died at the hands of a homeless man during an argument, police said.

Gyasi Denis, 35, faces a manslaughter charge after his arrest Saturday — hours after NYPD officers responded to a 911 call from 11-24 McBridge Street, near Regina Avenue, authorities said.

Officers arrived about 12:45 a.m. to find an unconscious and unresponsive man inside the home, with trauma to his face, police said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene, prompting an investigation that eventually led to Denis, authorities said.

Investigators believe Denis attacked the man — whose identity is being withheld until his family is notified — during a dispute, police told Patch.

The man suffered numerous injuries, including a stab wound, slashes to his face and blunt trauma to his body, police said. Medical examiners have yet to determine a specific cause of death, but deemed it a homicide, authorities said.

Denis, in addition to the manslaughter charge, faces counts of burglary, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance, officials said.