Overview
- Emergency responders answered a 911 call just before 2 p.m. Saturday reporting two men stabbed near 86th Street and 14th Avenue inside Dyker Beach Park and rushed both to Maimonides Medical Center.
- A 21-year-old man was later pronounced dead at the hospital and a 30-year-old man remains in critical condition.
- Police detained one person at the scene but have not released the detainee’s identity or announced any charges.
- Authorities are withholding the deceased man’s name while they notify his family and say investigators are continuing to probe the incident.
- Some news accounts cite unnamed police sources saying the fight involved Mexican gangs, but that claim has not been confirmed in public NYPD statements.