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Brooklyn Man Stabbed To Death While Breaking Up Fight
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Christopher Robbins
Published Oct 30, 2011
Modified Oct 30, 2011
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A 52-year-old Brooklyn man was murdered with a kitchen knife as he attempted to break up a fight between two women. Felix Figueroa was stabbed in the chest on the corner of Barbey and Pitkin Avenue in Cypress Hills in front of a store where the fight broke out. As the two women fought and Figueroa got in the middle, a relative of one of the women stabbed Figueroa. "By the time I went to separate them, he kicked the guy, got up, and showed me he'd been stabbed," a lifelong friend of the victim told the Daily News.
47-year-old Neil Ali has been apprehended and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. "He always had people's backs," Figueroa's 18-year-old daughter told the paper. "He was a good father."
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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