Carlos Gonzalez Beslanga, 32, of Newington, Conn., was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, according to Sgt. John M. Delaney, executive aide to Springfield Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet.
Violence, including shootings, stabbings and homicides, continues to plague the city's North End. Here, the Coalition of Hispanic Ministers of Western Massachusetts gathered last June in the neighborhood to raise awareness about violence in the city. SPRINGFIELD - The city recorded its eighth murder of the year when a Connecticut man was stabbed once in the heart and lung on Cumberland Street late Saturday afternoon, police said.
Carlos Gonzalez Beslanga, 32, of Newington, was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center, according to Sgt. John M. Delaney, executive aide to Springfield Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet. The fatal stabbing occurred just across Chestnut Street from the hospital's North End campus.
Police are searching for suspects Luis Cintron, 37, and Noemy Ramos, 33, both of 66 Cumberland St., Delaney said. Both are considered armed and dangerous.
According to police, Beslanga had been visiting his mother at a Cumberland Street address in the city's North End and decided to urinate between 62 and 66 Cumberland St before his return trip to Connecticut. The male suspect objected to his actions, a verbal argument ensued and Beslanga was stabbed once, police said.
The murder comes three weeks after the shooting death of Sheldon Innocent, a Wilbraham man who was killed at a State Street barbershop while a barber was wounded. The suspect in the slaying, Tamik Kirkland, then shot two pursuing officers, who were saved from serious injuries because they were wearing bulletproof vests. Police said the barber and Innocent were blameless.
Kirkland, who was shot by police during the incident, will be arraigned after he is released from the hospital, police said.
Police are asking anyone with information about this latest crime to call the http://www.springfieldpolice.net/police/db.0.html at (413) 787-6355. Text-message tips may also be sent via Text-a-Tip, an anonymous crime-reporting system that allows people to send information to police by any cell phone with text-messaging capabilities. Such messages should be addressed to CRIMES (or 274637) and should begin with the word SOLVE.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate location of a fatal stabbing late Saturday afternoon in Springfield's North End: