A fired IHOP employee was arrested within the stabbing homicide of his ex-colleague in a barbaric conflict within the Brooklyn eatery’s restroom, cops and sources mentioned Monday.
Wilber Salazar Rios, 44, was arrested Sunday and charged with homicide, assault and prison possession of a weapon within the late Friday slaying of Hector Reinoso Perez at East New York IHOP on Flatlands Avenue close to Louisiana Avenue, police mentioned.
Salazar Rios, of Hempstead, Nassau County, was chatting with the sufferer, in addition to his former supervisor contained in the eatery earlier than issues turned violent, regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
All three dispersed and Reinoso Perez went again to cleansing the lavatory – the place Salazar Rios confronted him as soon as once more, in line with the sources.
The 2 males argued earlier than the sacked worker stabbed his former co-worker within the abdomen with a knife, the sources mentioned.
Reinoso-Perez – who lived a few half-mile from the restaurant the place he labored – was taken to Brookdale College Hospital Medical Heart the place he was later pronounced lifeless, cops mentioned.
One other employee, 41, who tried to step in through the lethal conflict and take the knife away ended up with cuts on his arms, in line with cops and prosecutors. He was not hospitalized.
Salazar Rios instructed cops after he his arrest that the homicide sufferer had pushed him when he went into the lavatory, the sources mentioned.
He additionally claimed he had no thought the place the knife got here from, in line with the sources.
Salazar Rios was ordered held with out bail throughout his Monday afternoon arraignment.
