A 17-year-old boy was arrested by the New York Police for the murder of a man near Times Squareas announced by the authorities on May 7.
The authorities indicated that the young man would have committed the crime for a viral challenge on social networks.
The young man was arrested last Wednesday and is accused of stabbing a 39-year-old man identified as Leónidas Baez. The incident occurred on a street near Times Square, around midnight.
Media like New York Daily News and CBS indicated that the young man, when questioned about why he committed the crime, He said he did it because of a viral challenge on TikTok.
The supposed challenge was to “molesting people addicted to drugs, mainly crack“The young man said that, along with two other accomplices, they chose the victim at random.
When he was arrested on Wednesday in Brooklyn, the young man was carrying a scalpel, so he was not only charged with murder, but also possession of weapons.
The authorities are still searching for the two accomplices of the arrested young man.
They also pointed out that there is a video recorded by security cameras in which the victim is observed while arguing with three people, although the images do not show the moment of the stabbing.
Finally, the Police indicated that the victim resided in the state of Massachusetts and, according to family testimonies collected by The Daily News, He was a person who liked to travel and was passing through New York.
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