Homeless man charged in fatal Midtown NYC stabbing: cops

Homeless man charged in fatal Midtown NYC stabbing: cops

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A homeless man was arrested Tuesday in connection to the fatal stabbing of a Queens man, who died on the sidewalk just blocks from Times Square, cops said.

Vincent Cole, 38, was charged with murder Monday, less than a day after 51-year-old Esan Benn was found unconscious near West 38th Street and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, police said.

Benn was rushed to the hospital around 5:30 a.m. Monday but could not be saved, according to police.

Esan Benn was found fatally stabbed in Midtown Manhattan.
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Vincent Cole, 38, was charged with murder in the case.
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Esan Benn
Esan Benn was rushed to the hospital around 5:30 a.m. Monday.
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Benn was a tennis coach in his native Guyana, according the Guyanese news site the News Room.

Medical officials later found the stab wounds on Benn and his death was ruled a homicide.

Police investigators eventually located a video that showed the Queens man in a dispute before being stabbed and stumbling about a block to where cops discovered him, police sources said at the time.

he man was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, but he did not survive.
Esan Benn’s death was ruled a homicide.
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Cole has seven prior arrests in Manhattan and Brooklyn for petit larceny, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.

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