Syracuse, NY -- A fight between a woman’s past and present boyfriend ended in a fatal stabbing Wednesday when the two fought at her Bellevue Avenue apartment over clothes, police said. Alexis Madera-Duenas, a native of Cuba, was found by police about 5 p.m. unconscious and bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds in a stairwell in a Bellevue Avenue building....
Syracuse, NY -- A fight between a woman’s past and present boyfriend ended in a fatal stabbing
Denys AlmeidaAlexis Madera-Duenas, a native of Cuba, was found by police about 5 p.m. unconscious and bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds in a stairwell in a Bellevue Avenue building. He was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived at Upstate University Hospital. He was stabbed at least 17 times.
Denys Almeida, 27, of 121 Kellogg St., was taken into custody at 5:17 p.m. and charged with second-degree murder.
Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler gave these details this morning:
Madera-Duenas, 41, was visiting Carmen Cajiga at her 922 Bellevue Ave. apartment when Almeida showed up. Almeida, Cajiga’s ex-boyfriend, wanted to recover some clothes.
Cajiga and Almeida argued. Madera-Duenas stepped into the argument. The two men began fighting, which turned violent and spilled out of the apartment and into the stairwell. Almeida then stabbed Madera-Duenas multiple times before fleeing in a vehicle.
Almeida was picked up by police shortly afterward at his Kellogg Street home. Almeida later admitted to detectives that he stabbed Madera-Duenas.
Fowler called the fight “very violent,” and said that the hospital found 17 stab wounds on Madera-Duenas before giving up counting. Madera-Duenas had wounds on several parts of his body and had defensive wounds on his hands, Fowler said. Police don’t believe Madera-Duenas had a weapon.
The knife was recovered, Fowler said. Almeida had no injuries when he was arrested, Fowler said.
Fowler stressed that the fight wasn’t over the woman but, rather, over clothes.
“I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s ridiculous that someone can be so angry they can stab a person,” Fowler said.
Almeida is also a native of Cuba, Fowler said.
Madera-Duenas has a child, Fowler said, and police are looking into where the child was during the fight. Because Madera-Duenas is from Cuba, police are having a hard time tracking down his next of kin. Anyone who may be able to help police in tracking down relatives should call police at 442-5222.
The killing is Syracuse’s 12th homicide this year.