Suspect Named In Fatal Upper West Side Stabbing

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The NYPD has identified a suspect wanted for murdering another man outside of an Upper West Side restaurant.

Alexander Clement, 28, has been linked to the fatal stabbing of Special Anthony Stewart, an NYPD spokesman said. Clement is accused of stabbing 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 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 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. At the time the photo was released, police did not know Clement's identity.

Clement is described as standing 5-foot-6 and weighing about 180 with black hair and brown eyes, according to an NYPD wanted posted. His last known address is a Washington Heights building on Riverside Drive, according to the poster.

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