A suspect has been arrested for the stabbing death of a 35-year-old woman who was protecting her boyfriend during a crazed clash outside a Bronx bar, police said Wednesday.
Cristian Moya, 28, was arrested Tuesday night for murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly stabbing of Pamela Almonte Cabrera outside Mama Dora Bar & Lounge in Kingsbridge Heights just after closing time.
Cabrera, who lived in Melrose, was with a group of about five people when they got into a fight with another group on the sidewalk outside the bar on East Kingsbridge Road near Morris Ave. about 4:10 a.m. Friday, cops said.
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Pamela Almonte Cabrera, 35, was fatally stabbed in the Bronx on Sunday. (Obtained by Daily News)
Surveillance video shows a commotion among a crowd outside the bar before Cabrera is seen walking down the block, held upright by another person. She then is seen sitting down on the pavement before collapsing.
Cabrera was first taken by private means to BronxCare Health System, then transferred to Lincoln Hospital, where she died, police said.
She was stabbed protecting her boyfriend from the other group, according to police sources.
Her distraught boyfriend, through tears at a memorial near the bar outside a barbershop on Briggs Ave. where Cabrera worked, lamented: “I was there. I feel like s–t. I feel bad.”
Cabrera worked as a nail technician in the back of the barbershop, her grieving friends said. She had two sons who live in the Dominican Republic and a 17-year-old daughter who lives in New York City.
”She was happy, very happy,” said Wendy, a 52-year-old friend of Cabrera. “All day, every day, she was happy. We feel very bad because she’s a good person.”