Feuding migrant groups brawl at Randall’s Island shelter after stabbing
Bad blood boiled over between feuding groups of migrants at the Randall’s Island shelter Friday night as a brawl broke out following an earlier stabbing, police and sources said.
Half a dozen migrants from Africa and South America duked it out around 8 p.m. at the massive Manhattan tent city that is no stranger to unruly behavior, the sources said.
The melee erupted after a 25-year-old African migrant was stabbed in the left shoulder by an attacker from the rival group, according to the NYPD and sources.
The man was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
A “large, disorderly group” got into a fight in the wake of the attack, requiring extra officers to descend on the pop-up shelter, according to police.
Brothers Josue and Moises Delon, 19 and 27, respectively, were arrested in connection to the stabbing and hit with assault charges, the NYPD said.
An 18-year-old was also detained for his role in the brawl. He was given a summons for disorderly conduct and released.
Sources said Friday’s fight was the result of ongoing tensions between both groups.
The late-night melee is nothing new at the Randall’s Island shelter, which was erected last August to ease the city’s overwhelming migrant crisis.
In April, five men were charged with assault for their part in a rowdy fight that left one asylum seeker suffering a stab wound and four intervening security guards injured.
That same month, a migrant viciously attacked and bit a security guard who tried to cool down a fight between the man and his wife.
There was also a fatal stabbing at the site in January when one migrant attacked his fellow asylum-seeker who had been talking to his girlfriend.
