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 F🍎riday night as a brawl broke out following an earlier stabbing, polic💜e 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 behavior൩, the sources said.
The melee erupted after a 25-year-old African migrant was stabbed in t💜he left shoulder by an attacker from the rival group, according to the NYPD and sources.
T🉐he♉ 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 coꦉnnection to the stabbing and hit with assault charges, the NYPD said.
An 18-year-old was also detained for his role ꦏin the brawl. He was given a summons for disorderly conduct and released.
Sources said Friday’s fight was the result of ongoi𒁏ng te🐬nsions 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 c⭕harged 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 g꧃uard who tried to cool dow♔🐼n a fight between the man and his wife.
There was also a fatal stabbing at the site in January when ꦑone migrant attacked h🐬is fellow asylum-seeker who had been talking to his girlfriend.