{"id":280658,"date":"2026-06-28T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280658\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:09","slug":"fatally-stabbed-nyc-man-idd-as-manuel-estanislao-chox-choc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280658\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatally stabbed NYC man ID’d as Manuel Estanislao Chox Choc"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young man fatally stabbed <\/a>near million-dollar Brooklyn homes Saturday was a \u201cquiet kid\u2019\u2019 who was just watching a local soccer game when neighborhood menaces on mopeds rolled up, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

Police on Sunday identified the fatal Dyker Heights victim as Manuel Estanislao Chox Choc, 21, from neighboring Bath Beach.<\/p>\n

While law-enforcement sources initially said they believed the stabbing occurred during a dispute between two Mexican gangs, they told The Post on Sunday that it looks like it was just between two feuding groups of two people each.<\/p>\n

\"YellowA 21-year-old man was killed inside Dyker Beach Park on Saturday afternoon, police said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

The fatal brawl, which also left a 30-year-old man in critical condition with stab wounds, rocked the neighborhood around 2 p.m. inside Dyker Beach Park, cops and residents said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a lot of cop cars and an ambulance car going over there,\u201d said an ice-cream vendor, who was working in the park when the fight broke out, to The Post on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI got scared. I heard screaming. Someone told me a young man is hurt over there,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tim Moeller, 59, said he was playing bocce when he saw the fight break out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said that the two victims were watching a soccer game when menaces on mopeds rolled up and started the chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were two guys on a scooter. They were driving around here. They were the ones that initiated the problem,\u201d Moeller told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The creeps on ther mopeds then stabbed the pair, leaving them in the field before jetting off on their scooter, according to Moeller.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time anybody realized what happened, it was already over,\u201d Moeller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AMoped-riding fiends rolled up to and attacked the young man and another guy, witnesses told The Post on Sunday. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Chox Choc and the other stabbed man were rushed to Maimonides Hospital by EMS, where Chox Choc died. The 30-year-old man is in critical condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A small memorial was erected by Sunday near the soccer field where the two were stabbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chox Choc was described as a \u201cquiet kid\u201d by locals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would just hear him talk about meeting up with family,\u201d said Justin Rroku, 21, a neighbor.<\/p>\n

Moped-riding scofflaws have been a consistent problem in the area, terrorizing Dyker Beach Park, residents told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese idiots always come through here in their mopeds,\u201d Moeller said. \u201cThe guy in the Parks Department chased them out of here the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miguel Cocom, 31, said a group of young men who call themselves \u201cni\u00f1os malos,\u201d or \u201cbad boys\u201d in Spanish, are usually out riding on mopeds on the park\u2019s grounds, causing trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come around here wearing ski masks,\u201d Cocom said. \u201cThere\u2019s always a group of about five in mopeds. They drive reckless.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man was taken into custody at the scene of the bloody stabbing, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The young man fatally stabbed near million-dollar Brooklyn homes Saturday was a \u201cquiet kid\u2019\u2019 who was just watching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,2045,47112,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,2442,58],"class_list":["post-280658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-dyker-heights","tag-gang","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-stabbings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280658","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=280658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}