A migrant accused of brutally stabbing a fellow asylum seeker to death New York tent shelter allegedly asked security guards to let him “finish the job” in coldblooded comments after the attack, prosecutors said at his arraignment on Tuesday.
Moises Coronado, 27, allegedly told security guards at the Randall’s Island shelter that he stabbed Dafren Canizalez, 35, multiple times because “he needed to get revenge,” prosecutor Pierre Griffith told a New York Jury.
Coronado “made statements indicating that he was not a punk and that because the deceased had punched him earlier he needed to get revenge and he even asked the security guards to let him go so that he could go and finish the job,” Griffith said of the deadly Jan. 6 attack.
The suspect pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder and is facing 15 years-to-life in prison in the slaying.
The beef was sparked when Coronado allegedly made comments about Canizalez’s girlfriend and started a fight, prosecutors allege.
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