A person was busted this week within the lethal stabbing of a Brooklyn dad who confronted him for taking photographs of his cousin final month, police and regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
Roger Collado, 38, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with homicide, in addition to two counts of assault and a weapon possession rap, in connection to the July 18 assault on 36-year-old Severiano “John” Reyes on the nook of Roebling Avenue and South ninth Avenue in Williamsburg, cops mentioned.
Collado had allegedly been hassling Reyes and two family who have been with him that night, a 45-year-old man and a 27-year-old lady, police mentioned.
The conflict heated up when the Collado allegedly refused to cease repeatedly taking photos of Reyes’ cousin, sources mentioned.
Reyes approached the suspect and requested him to place the digicam down, in accordance with the sources.
That’s when Collado allegedly plunged a knife into Reyes’ neck, cops mentioned.
The daddy of 4 was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, however couldn’t be saved.
The 2 family of Reyes’ have been additionally harm: The person was slashed within the neck and again and the girl was stabbed within the wrist, in accordance with cops.
Each have been hospitalized in steady situation.
The slain man’s household described the alleged killer as a deranged childhood classmate who attacked as a part of revenge over a long-festering grudge.
Collado lived on the nook the place the lethal stabbing occurred, and Reyes lived in Bushwick.
“This man got here as much as my brother two weeks in the past,” the sufferer’s grieving sister Yvette Reyes advised the Every day Information. “He mentioned, ‘You took one thing from me after we have been kids.’ That is premeditated homicide.”
In keeping with his sister, Reyes and his killer had been in the identical particular schooling class greater than 20 years in the past however had not saved in shut contact.
“Sadly my brother was stabbed in an unprovoked assault by somebody we don’t know personally,” Yvette wrote on a GoFundMe.
“We weren’t ready for such a traumatic tragedy to occur … my brother was such a superb particular person.”
