One man was killed, and two others injured Wednesday in a bloody brawl inside an upper Manhattan deli, police said.
Police responded to a call of an assault around 5:30 p.m. near Broadway and W. 212th St. in Inwood — where a 24-year-old man was found outside the Ameer Deli and Grill, fatally stabbed in the neck. Also injured in the brawl were a 21-year-old man stabbed in the back and hand, and a 20-year-old man lashed in the neck, cops and sources told the Daily News.
A scalpel was used in the bloodshed, they added.
According to sources, the three men were fighting by the ATM at the store, and the fatally injured man stumbled out and collapsed in the gutter, next to his double-parked car, a Honda CRV.
“It happened so fast, they were fighting by the ATM,” one witness who did not want to be named told The News. “One came out of the deli, his throat was slashed and he was bleeding all over the sidewalk before he collapsed.”
EMS transported the youngest man to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. The other two were taken by private means to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where the 24-year-old man died.
Two men were taken into custody, cops said; charges were pending Wednesday night.
It was not immediately known what sparked the violence.
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