Police: Man charged with attempted murder in northwest Miami-Dade elevator stabbing

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A northwest Miami-Dade man was arrested on an tried second-degree homicide cost early Tuesday morning after police stated he rekindled an previous quarrel and stabbed a person in an elevator.

All of it occurred on the Northside Commons condominium constructing, positioned at 8301 NW twenty seventh Ave. within the West Little River space, police stated.

In response to a police report, the sufferer instructed officers that he and 46-year-old Daniel Kuyat had a verbal argument months in the past, which he thought the 2 had moved previous.

That apparently wasn’t the case.

Police stated Kuyat, who lives within the constructing, was in its foyer simply after 11:30 Monday evening, and started arguing with the sufferer once more.

The opposite man walked away, police stated, however Kuyat charged after him and started assaulting him, main the sufferer to defend himself, the report states.

After the sufferer acquired in an elevator in an try to get away, Kuyat adopted him inside and positioned him right into a headlock and instructed him he would “minimize his head off,” police stated.

He then slashed and stabbed the sufferer, police stated, inflicting the person to bleed “profusely.”

The investigating officer described surveillance video displaying the elevator assault.

“(A) battle is seen till the elevator door closes. Just a few moments later, the elevator door opens and Kuyat exits the elevator,” the officer wrote. “Kuyat rushes again into the elevator with the knife nonetheless in his hand and makes an attempt to tug (the sufferer) out of the elevator. Though there’s a giant battle, Kuyat is ready to pull (the sufferer) out of the elevator by pulling his jacket over his head and dragging him out.”

The officer wrote that Kuyat was then seen slashing the sufferer within the again.

In response to the report, the sufferer was capable of run away and search refuge in his brother’s condominium as Kuyat chased him with the knife.

The report states that Kuyat declined to talk to officers with out an legal professional current.

Kuyat, who additionally confronted expenses of aggravated assault and aggravated battery, each with a lethal weapon, was being held with out bond on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart.