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Subscribe to RSSPolice hope surveillance footage will help solve the murder of a youth soccer coach who was stabbed to death in New York City and had his ear cut off. WNBC's Katherine Creag reports.
Police are searching for a man who stabbed a youth soccer coach and cut off his ear before leaving him to die on a New York City sidewalk near Union Square early Sunday.
Police responded to a call of an assault on West 14th Street at about 4:30 a.m. and discovered 25-year-old Michael Jones lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds to his stomach and neck. His ear had also been cut off, police said.
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“I ran down to the ambulance (down the block) and said, ‘You’d better get down there. There’s a guy on the ground with his throat cut,’” passer-by Malachi Mohamed, 39, told the New York Post.
Jones, a native of Liverpool, England, and soccer coach for the Red Bulls Youth Training Programs, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. He lived in West Harrison in Westchester County.
“He coached two of my three sons and was just a great guy. He cared about what he did, and was very dedicated,” Mark Fischer, who oversees refs for the Westchester league, told the Post. “The kids loved him.”
Police released surveillance video of the male suspect believed to have stabbed Jones as they canvassed the neighborhood looking for potential witnesses. Jones' attacker was described as a man between the ages of 25 and 30 with a dark ponytail.
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The New York Red Bulls issued a statement calling Jones a "fantastic coach who loved soccer."
Police sources said that robbery did not appear to be the motive. The investigation is ongoing.
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My sincere condolences to the family and friends of Michael Jones.
Hopefully the NYPD will track the perpetrator(s) down quickly and get them off the streets.
well that certainly helps....way to go NYPD............
Shss! Thre's a video that has been released. Did you look at it? You can see the t-shirt, the jacket, jeans, hair, face, etc
julie
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maybe now they will get some help, sorry my old computer doesn't do video feeds very well.
Lets just hope son of sam wasnt reincarnated. This kind of sounds like they should be looking for a really sick dude who will obviously now not have a pony tail once he reads this article.
Condolences to family & friends of this young man. May God wrap his loving arms around you all and help give you peace. To the perp, hope when the time comes, you burn in hell!
Blacks are killed by Blacks every day in New York but no one cares, no even Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.
really dude? Had to throw the race card in already.
Out at 4:30 in the morning?
Bars in NY close at 4am.
That particular area is known for after hours clubs and a number of gay bars. It's fairly close to the meat market (NO PUN INTENDED) where the wholesalers bring in sides of beef and pork for resale.
Very sad. Pray for the family. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us. Where do you go when you die? When you close your eyes in this world you wake up in another. Then its Heaven or Hell. God loves us and sent His son Jesus to die for our sins so we can go to Heaven. All we have to do is accept Jesus as our saviour, repent and turn away from our sins. Your opinions won't matter when you die, only truth.
What matters is who killed him? Period. Justice in this world is important to all of us.
Belief in the afterlife varies greatly person to person and open to conjecture. Murder is not.
If the perpetrator took the ear and it was not left behind, this was probably a hit for hire and the ear was proof for payment.
Probably a gang initiation so the killer took the ear back for proof he made the kill.
It's NYC so a normal day.