Cops: Man stabs his neighbor
Friday, September 26, 2008

A 23-year-old man suffered a punctured lung when his next-door neighbor stabbed him in the hallway outside their apartments Wednesday evening, reports said.

Mario Manzanal, 59, of Newark Avenue in Jersey City, was charged with aggravated assault and weapons charges, reports said.

Manzanal stabbed the victim at around 9:25 p.m., and then chased him to the stairs, reports said. The victim ran out of the building and onto Kennedy Boulevard, where he found his brother and called the police, reports said.

A witness told police the victim was stabbed with a silver-handled knife as he walked past Manzanal's apartment to reach his own apartment, reports said.

"This guy came out of no place and stabbed (the victim)," the witness said.

CHARLES HACK