{"id":318818,"date":"2026-08-11T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:10:08","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-fatally-stabbing-acquaintance-half-his-age-last-month-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318818\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for fatally stabbing acquaintance half his age last month on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man has been arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/07\/03\/grisly-stabbing-staten-island-apartment-building-leaves-man-dead-nypd-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally stabbing <\/a>an acquaintance half his age a month ago on Staten Island, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Griffin was charged Monday with murder, weapon possession and criminal contempt, for violating an order of protection, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He knew victim Kycell Terry, 25, though their exact relationship wasn\u2019t clear Tuesday, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Kycell Terry was fatally stabbed inside this Ann St. apartment building near Park Ave. in Port Richmond, Staten Island, on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (Google)\" width=\"2002\" height=\"302\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-07-03-101942.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9133383\" \/>Kycell Terry was fatally stabbed inside this Ann St. apartment building near Park Ave. in Port Richmond, Staten Island, on July 2. (Google)<\/p>\n<p>Terry was stabbed repeatedly in the stomach inside a building on Ann St. near Park Ave. in Port Richmond about 7 a.m. July 2. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The victim lived about nine blocks from where he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who lives a few blocks from the crime scene, has about 25 prior arrests, police said, including numerous for drug possession. His murder arraignment was pending in Staten Island Criminal Court Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man has been arrested for fatally stabbing an acquaintance half his age a month ago on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-318818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318818","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=318818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}