NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Three men started throwing glass bottles at a stranger in a Manhattan hotel being used as a city shelter over the weekend, hitting a security worker — who retaliated by stabbing two of the men with shards of broken glass, police said.
Jordy Torres-Cabezas, 33, and his 16-year-old brother began tossing glass bottles with their friend Alejandro Pollo, 19, in the Stewart Hotel on Seventh Avenue near West 31st Street around 12:55 a.m. Saturday.
All three live at the 600-room hotel, which the city announced in November would be converted from an emergency shelter to one of the city's four humanitarian relief centers for migrants.
The trio allegedly intended to target a stranger, but police said multiple bottles struck Andiley Nazaire, a 23-year-old hotel security worker. Pollo also struck an uninvolved man in the face with his belt.
Torres-Cabezas, his brother and Pollo were then kicked out of the hotel by security, and a hotel supervisor walked them two blocks away to West 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, police said.
That's when police say Nazaire chased down the group and stabbed the two brothers in the back with pieces of the broken glass.
The brothers were taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, where they were both in stable condition.
All four men have since been charged.
Nazaire was charged with assault, menacing, acting in a manner injurious to a child, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.
Torres-Cabezas, his brother and Pollo were all charged with assault, menacing, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.
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