Upper West Side Stabbing: Man Killed In Front Of Restaurant, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — A man was stabbed to death on the Upper West side late Thursday, the NYPD said.

Police rushed to the intersection of Broadway and 95th Street just before midnight after reports that a man was stabbed in front of La Nueva Victoria Restaurant.

They found 24-year-old Special Anthony 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.

A man working a shoe shine next door to La Nueva Victoria told Patch he didn't witness the stabbing but "wasn't shocked" that it happened.

"Every once in a while some knucklehead will do something around here," Larry, who didn't want to give his last name, told Patch.

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

No one had been arrested for the killing as of Friday morning, police said.

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