HIALEAH, Fla. — A Hialeah man was arrested on an armed robbery charge on Tuesday in connection with a mid-September stabbing in the city, according to police.
Authorities said Leonardo Carracedo-King, 30, was upset that the victim “disrespected his girlfriend by urinating in public near her” at around 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 13.
Two witnesses said they had left the victim’s apartment, located at 1099 W. 71st St., to head to a nearby gas station just after 11:30 p.m. when they heard the victim arguing with Carracedo-King, who was “armed with a large knife and threatening the victim,” according to a report from the Hialeah Police Department.
Police said one of the witnesses “attempted to defuse the situation by apologizing on the victim’s behalf and shaking (Carracedo-King’s) hand.”
Authorities said the two witnesses went back to the victim’s apartment, then left, but were called back by the victim just before 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, “who told them that he had been stabbed and needed them to return.”
Police said officers found the man “lying on a bed in a bedroom with multiple stab wounds, including a large, deep wound to the center of his chest.”
They said medics airlifted him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
According to the report, the victim told police that after the witnesses left, “he walked toward the parking lot intending to apologize to” Carracedo-King and “carried a baseball bat for self-protection, as he had previously been threatened with a knife.”
The report states that he told investigators that as he walked over to apologize, another man, driving a black Cadillac SUV registered to Carracedo-King, “confronted the victim and yelled for (Carracedo-King) to go and grab the gun.”
“The victim then retreated and started walking back toward his apartment,” police wrote. “According to the victim, both (men) chased him as he walked up the stairs to his apartment. One (man) forcibly removed the baseball bat from the victim, while the other stabbed the victim multiple times with a large knife.”
The report doesn’t name the other man, described as a co-defendant, and it’s unclear whether police have identified him or whether they’ve determined which of the two men stabbed the victim.
Police said Carracedo-King left his wallet behind, however, and said they arrested him on the armed robbery charge “based on the fact the defendants acted together to attack the victim.”
Carracedo-King’s bond was listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records as of Wednesday.
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