The homeless man who was knifed to death in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment had been trying to calm the suspect down after he attacked a woman, according to officials.
Victim John Carlos Mesa, 26, rushed to the W. 47th St. building near Ninth Ave. on Wednesday afternoon to confront and calm down Carlos Andres Delgado Lopez after he struck, stabbed and threw to the ground a 35-year-old woman inside the third-floor apartment, according to a criminal complaint.
The woman, who has not been identified, made a phone call to Mesa as she barricaded herself inside the place’s bedroom during the attack, as Delgado Lopez tried to break into the bedroom by pushing and pounding on the door, according to the complaint.
Delgado Lopez, 31, stabbed Mesa with a large black knife during the confrontation, leaving two deep stab wounds in his torso. Mesa fled as he bled out, leaving a gruesome trail of blood from the third floor all the way to the building’s front stoop.
A 25-year-old building tenant who saw Mesa “covered in blood” outside the place moments after the Wednesday afternoon stabbing said her roommate told her she heard Mesa screaming in the hallway after the attack.
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