A cocaine dealer was killed – shot and stabbed nearly a dozen times – during a robbery at a Queens birthday party over the weekend, cops said.
Lenner Zuniga, 35 – who has 49 prior arrests – was shot three times and stabbed eight more when the violence erupted just after 3 a.m. Sunday inside the second-floor apartment on 125th Street near 103rd Avenue in South Richmond Hill, authorities and sources said.
Zuniga – who has been arrested on gun and drug-related charges, and has a history as an emotionally disturbed person – was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, cops and sources said.
“This is going to be a robbery, possibly narcotics-related,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters Tuesday.
“Apparently the apartment is kind of a flophouse, it’s a hang-out location. The victim and seven to eight other males are there to celebrate a birthday.”
“The [victim] does have a reputation of being a cocaine dealer,” Kenny said.
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