{"id":217067,"date":"2026-05-01T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:55:08","slug":"man-arrested-following-fatal-stabbing-in-manhattan-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217067\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested Following Fatal Stabbing In Manhattan, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELL&#8217;S KITCHEN, NY \u2014 Police have arrested a suspect after a fatal stabbing left one man dead and another injured in Hell\u2019s Kitchen last week, New York City Police Department officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responding to a 911 call at 4:47 a.m. on April 23 found two men with multiple stab wounds to their torsos outside the Urban Pathways Drop-in Center on Ninth Avenue between West 51st and West 52nd streets, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue, where one man was pronounced dead. The second victim, 34, is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has been identified as 31-year-old Rene Flores.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 35-year-old Kareem Ruddock was arrested at 2:20 p.m. and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELL&#8217;S KITCHEN, NY \u2014 Police have arrested a suspect after a fatal stabbing left one man dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-217067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}