{"id":344321,"date":"2026-09-11T20:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344321\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:46:22","slug":"homeless-man-knifed-to-death-in-hells-kitchen-apartment-found-bleeding-on-steps-outside-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344321\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man knifed to death in Hell’s Kitchen apartment found bleeding on steps outside: witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 26-year-old homeless man fatally stabbed inside a Hell\u2019s Kitchen apartment<\/a> left a gory blood trail from the third floor all the way to the front stoop as he slowly bled out from a gaping stomach wound, police and witnesses said Friday.<\/p>\n

Victim John Carlos Mesa was found \u201ccovered in blood\u201d when a tenant from the W. 47th St. apartment building near 9th Ave. saw him outside the building on his cellphone moments after the Wednesday afternoon stabbing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw (him) stumble out of the building and down the stoop,\u201d said a 25-year-old tenant, who didn\u2019t wish to be named. \u201cHe was on the phone, and he just seemed like he was talking with a friend. He wasn\u2019t insanely screaming for help or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the woman drew closer, she could clearly see his shirt was soaked with blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was holding his stomach,\u201d she said. \u201cHe put his hand up by his head, and that\u2019s when I saw that clearly there was, like, an injury to his stomach. He was definitely losing a lot of blood. He was swaying back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grisly details about the 2:45 p.m. stabbing came out as cops charged a third-floor tenant of the building, Carlos Andres Delgado Lopez, with murder for killing Mesa and attempted murder for stabbing a 35-year-old woman also inside the apartment.<\/p>\n

Delgado Lopez, 31, knew both of his victims, police sources with knowledge of the case said. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what sparked the stabbing.<\/p>\n

A second tenant, Jorge Bender, told WABC Eyewitness News that he helped put pressure on Mesa\u2019s wound<\/a> and called 911 for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the size of the wound \u2013 and I could see some of the tissue hanging out. I suspect it\u2019s a stabbing,\u201d Bender said Thursday. \u201cI (told the 911 operator), \u2018The gentleman is distraught, he\u2019s very pale.\u2019 I said, \u2018He only speaks Spanish and some English. Just please send an ambulance.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman who found Mesa outside the apartment immediately ran into her building, only to find a sickening blood trail leading from the lobby to a blood-soaked elevator.<\/p>\n

She opted to take the stairs to the third floor, only to learn that the stabbing had occurred next door to her apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI noted the blood trailing practically to my apartment, and that\u2019s when I freaked out because my roommate was home. I was like, \u2018Is she okay?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After she called 911 and alerted the building\u2019s super, her roommate told her that she had heard Mesa screaming in the hallway after the stabbing.<\/p>\n

\u201cCall the authorities! Call the authorities!\u201d Mesa screamed as he ran down the hall. \u201cSomeone\u2019s trying to kill me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics rushed both victims to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital<\/a>, where Mesa died. The wounded woman was expected to survive.<\/p>\n

Neither Delgado Lopez nor his two victims have criminal records, police said.<\/p>\n

The third-floor tenant said that another man and a woman lived with Delgado Lopez, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear if they were the two stabbing victims.<\/p>\n

After searching, cops couldn\u2019t find an address for Mesa, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n

She said she would say hello to them in passing, \u201cbut that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman was always dressed to the nines,\u201d she said. \u201cI was honestly very confused where she was going all the time because she was dressed up so nice where I was, like, \u2018Dang, like we have a fashionable neighbor!\u2019 She\u2019d always be in heels and like a dress. Full face of makeup.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three who lived in the apartment spoke Spanish and were pretty loud, she remembered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were pretty loud neighbors,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it was nothing of like concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delgado Lopez\u2019 arraignment in Manhattan criminal court was pending Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old homeless man fatally stabbed inside a Hell\u2019s Kitchen apartment left a gory blood trail from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-344321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344321","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=344321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}