Man of Guyanese heritage stabbed to death in New York

Andrew Cunje

A Queens, New York man of Guyanese heritage was stabbed to death on Tuesday last in a street robbery.

The dead man has been identified as Andrew Cunje, 25, of  Hollis, Queens. His family hails from Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

 News reports from New York City stated that Cunje was attacked by two robbers on 197th St. and Carpenter Ave. in Hollis, Queens at around 8:40 p.m. According to the New York Daily News, subsequent to the stabbing, Cunje was left lying on the street a few hundred feet from his home.