Man confesses to fatal stabbing after random hookup in Prospect Park
A Yonkers man confessed to fatally stabbing a homeless man after a random sex hookup in Prospect Park early Monday, police sources said.
Anthony Dejesus, 28, called 911 at 2:30 a.m. allegedly admitting he knifed his partner in an area called the Vale of Cashmere — known as a cruising spot. Miguel Andrews, 37, was found clinging to life with stab wounds to his arms and upper body.
Medics rushed Andrews to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist but he could not be saved.
The two men had met in a wooded area near Grand Army Plaza and smoked pot. Dejesus performed a sex act on Andrews before attacking him, sources said he told police. It’s unclear what sparked the stabbing.
Dejesus, of Yonkers, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Andrews was homeless, police said.
The Vale, a lush patch of the park that attracts bird-watchers, has been a dangerous spot for years.
In April 2006, a 61-year-old man in the area was fatally knifed in the chest. The prior October, two men were shot and wounded, and in 2000 five men were beaten by a suspect dressed as a ninja.
In his final days in office last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced $40 million in funding to restore the area.
