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"A graduate student at Columbia University died and another man was wounded after the two were stabbed in Upper Manhattan on Thursday night, the police and college officials said.
The student, Davide Giri, was walking a few blocks away from the school’s Morningside Heights campus just before 11 p.m. when he was stabbed in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead after being taken to an area hospital.
The police arrested a 25-year-old-man for the attack and said on Friday morning that charges were pending. His name had been not released on Friday morning, but the police said he was found inside Central Park and that he had been menacing a third man with a knife.
Mr. Giri, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science who was expected to graduate in May, had begun working as a research assistant at Columbia around 2016, after studying at schools in Italy and Chicago, according to his personal website. He played soccer competitively for more than two decades and was also trained in classical piano.
In a statement on Twitter, Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, noted the physical proximity between the street where Mr. Giri was attacked and the section of Morningside Park a few blocks away where an 18-year-old student at Barnard College was fatally stabbed two years ago."
Columbia University Student Dies in Stabbing Near Campus
The student, Davide Giri, was walking a few blocks away from the school’s Morningside Heights campus just before 11 p.m. when he was stabbed in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead after being taken to an area hospital.
The police arrested a 25-year-old-man for the attack and said on Friday morning that charges were pending. His name had been not released on Friday morning, but the police said he was found inside Central Park and that he had been menacing a third man with a knife.
Mr. Giri, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science who was expected to graduate in May, had begun working as a research assistant at Columbia around 2016, after studying at schools in Italy and Chicago, according to his personal website. He played soccer competitively for more than two decades and was also trained in classical piano.
In a statement on Twitter, Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, noted the physical proximity between the street where Mr. Giri was attacked and the section of Morningside Park a few blocks away where an 18-year-old student at Barnard College was fatally stabbed two years ago."
Columbia University Student Dies in Stabbing Near Campus
