A 31-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen and robbed of his cellphone on a Flushing street early on October 1, and police have now arrested two young suspects in connection with the attack. The violence unfolded near 109-15 37 Avenue in the overnight hours, leaving the victim hospitalized and investigators piecing together exactly how many people were involved.
According to News 12, the robbery happened just after 2 a.m. near 109-15 37 Avenue, when investigators say four people approached the man, displayed a cutting instrument and stabbed him multiple times in the abdomen before taking his cellphone. The incident happened around 2:10 a.m.; in another account, one suspect approached the victim and stabbed him before stealing the phone, while a separate account said police were looking for three suspects in the case. The discrepancies in the exact time and the number of assailants have not been resolved between the two outlets' accounts.
The victim was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital for treatment of the injuries he sustained in the attack, per the News 12 report.
Two Suspects Now Facing Charges
Police have since arrested 20-year-old Mateo Tonato and 19-year-old Scarleth Remache in connection with the robbery, the station's report states. Both Tonato and Remache are facing charges of assault and robbery, according to the same account.
A Street Robbery With Unresolved Details
The NYPD publishes crime data broken down by borough and precinct on a weekly basis, with a more detailed digital version available through its CompStat 2.0 platform. Those citywide figures offer context for patterns in street crime, though they do not speak to the specifics of this case.
For now, the core facts of what happened on 37 Avenue just after 2 a.m. remain partly in dispute between the two local outlets that first reported on the robbery, even as the arrests of Tonato and Remache mark the first concrete development in the case.
