A Brooklyn man was stabbed with his own knife after an argument with a stranger turned violent in Washington Square Park on Monday evening, according to law enforcement sources.
The incident unfolded at around 7:42 p.m. on Jul. 7 when officers from the 6th Precinct responded to an assault in progress inside the Greenwich Village greenspace.
Police sources said Keeshawn Grantnesbitt and Marquese Haynes, both 21 and from Brooklyn, were involved in a verbal dispute that escalated.
Haynes allegedly dropped his knife during the scuffle, and Grantnesbitt used it to stab him in the abdomen, sources said. The cause of the altercation was not immediately clear.
EMS took Haynes to Bellevue Hospital in a stable condition, police said.
The NYPD arrested and charged Grantnesbitt with assault later that evening. Haynes is also facing charges of menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
The 6th Precinct, which covers Greenwich Village and the West Village, has seen a nearly 20% drop in reported assaults year to date. As of July 6, there had been 69 incidents, 17 of which occurred in the past week, according to the latest NYPD data.
