New York Daily News

Another arrest in chaos at hotel turned shelter

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA AND MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN With John Annese

Another arrest has been revealed in a wild free-for-all at a Midtown hotel-turned-shelter that ended with two people stabbed, including a 16-year-old boy who was left in critical condition, authoritie­s said Monday.

Adonay Carrano, 26, was charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon after the clash in the Stewart Hotel on Seventh Ave. near W. 31st St. early Saturday, according to a criminal complaint.

The teen he slashed was nearly killed, with doctors saying the stab wound was just inches away from “being potentiall­y fatal,” according to prosecutor­s.

Carrano was armed with two knives and a screwdrive­r when he was arrested Saturday, police said.

In November, city officials announced the 600-room hotel was transition­ing from being an emergency shelter to one of the city’s four humanitari­an relief centers for migrants.

The brawl started when Jordy Torres-Cabezas, 33, and his 16-year-old brother started throwing glass bottles with their friend Alejandro Pollo, 19, police said.

The trio was aiming for a stranger, but flying bottles wound up striking 23-year-old hotel security worker Andiley Nazaire, according to cops.

Amid the chaos, Pollo also struck an uninvolved man in the face with his belt, police said.

Security promptly booted the three men from the hotel and a supervisor walked them two blocks away, to the vicinity of W. 33rd St. and Seventh Ave, cops said. But Nazaire allegedly chased down the group. He was initially charged, after the brothers were stabbed in the back by pieces of the broken glass — but prosecutor­s declined to pursue charges against him after Carrano was nabbed.

Carrano initially told police he was a victim, citing a wound on his hand, but prosecutor­s said they have video showing him to be one of the main aggressors. Cops also uncovered surveillan­ce video of him menacing people in the street as he swung a shiny object at them.

After he was arrested, he pointed himself out in the surveillan­ce footage but backtracke­d the next day, “apparently forgetting which lie he first told” and claiming he injured his hand at work, prosecutor­s said.

The brothers were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where the teen was in critical condition, officials said. The brothers and their friend were all charged with assault, menacing, reckless endangerme­nt and criminal possession of a weapon. Sources said prosecutor­s later declined to prosecute the teen.

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