A 58-year-old Harlem man stabbed within the neck by his personal son stumbled out of his constructing and onto the sidewalk — the place the mortally wounded dad collapsed, cops and prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.
The older man – who was not instantly recognized by police – died a number of days after he was stabbed by his 24-year-old son Lamont Oliphant round 11:45 p.m. July 20 inside an residence inside NYCHA’s Rangel Homes on Harlem River Drive close to Frederick Douglass Boulevard, authorities mentioned.
The gravely wounded man managed to stumble out of the residence, down the hallway, into an elevator, via the foyer and at last onto the sidewalk — abandoning a path of blood, prosecutors mentioned in courtroom.
He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, the place he was positioned in a medically induced coma and underwent a surgical procedure that lasted a number of hours for a torn artery in his neck, in line with a Manhattan assistant district lawyer.
About an hour-and-a-half after the knifing, Oliphant — who was clutching a knife in his palms and had dried blood on his leg — openly approached cops standing exterior the constructing and mentioned he was making an attempt to get again to his residence, prosecutors mentioned.
He supplied his actual residence unit, which is identical one the place the path of blood started, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
Oliphant was arrested and charged with tried homicide and felony assault, in line with the preliminary grievance. He was ordered to be held on $100,000 money bail or $200,000 bond throughout a July 22 arraignment on these costs, prosecutors mentioned.
The wounded man’s situation deteriorated for greater than every week earlier than he succumbed to his accidents on Friday, police mentioned. His dying was dominated a murder by the town medical expert’s workplace.
On Wednesday, Oliphant was arraigned on an upgraded prime cost of second-degree homicide and ordered held with out bail, in line with the DA’s Workplace.
