Arrest Made In Upper West Side Fatal Stabbing, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man is facing charges for a fatal stabbing that occurred last year on the Upper West Side, an NYPD spokesman said.

Alexander Clement, 29, was arrested Feb. 8 in Louisiana and charged with second-degree murder, an NYPD spokesman said. He is accused of fatally stabbing Special Anthony Stewart in the torso outside a restaurant on Broadway and West 95th Street on April 27, 2017, police said.

Police rushed to the intersection of Broadway and 95th Street just before midnight on April 27 after reports that a man was stabbed in front of La Nueva Victoria Restaurant. They found 24-year-old Stewart with stab wounds to his torso, police said. He was taken to Saint Luke's Hospital and pronounced dead. Stewart lived on West 103rd Street, a few blocks north of the eatery.

A manager at La Nueva Victoria told Patch last year that he knew somebody got stabbed in front of the restaurant but did not witness the crime because the restaurant was busy.

The NYPD tied Clement to the murder in May when it released a photo of the suspect captured on a security camera near the stabbing, police said. Police did not know Clement's identity until earlier this month.

Clement pleaded not guilty to murder charges and is currently in custody, according to court records. Clement's next court appearance is scheduled for April 4, according to records.

The fatal stabbing of Stewart was one of two murders that occurred within the NYPD's 24th Precinct in 2017, according to the precinct crime statistics. The 24th Precinct's jurisdiction spans the Upper West Side from West 86th Street up to West 110th Street.

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