What did Junior Aquino Hernandez do? Murder charges dropped as NYC fishmonger claims stabbing was accidental

Junior Aquino Hernandez was prosecuted on an attack charge in Manhattan Criminal Court on February 23, 2023. The 34-year-old was at first accused of homicide, weapon ownership, and attack in the passing of Malik Burrell.

Trigger admonition: This article contains notices of wounding and murder. Caution is encouraged.

Police detailed that on February 21, 2023, the Bronx local supposedly wounded two men while working at the Express Fish Market at 94 Holy person Nicholas Spot. The asserted wounding occurred after a quarrel when one of the two men purportedly would not pay for a request for shrimp.

Police said that the casualties were brothers, and one of them died because of his injuries, while the other was settled.

As per specialists, the cutting occurred at around 9:45 pm, and the men went into the store and started battling with the workers. It wasn’t long after this that the fishmonger, Junior Aquino Hernandez, went after them.

The casualties were recognized as 25-year-old Malik Burrell and his brother 29-year-old Robert “Bobby” Burrell. Specialists additionally noticed that the cutting occurred just before Malik’s 25th birthday celebration. They said that Bobby strolled into the store, got the shrimp, and attempted to leave without paying.

Notwithstanding, as he was leaving, he dropped the shrimp, hit a worker right upside the head, and in the end left the store. Something like four minutes after the fact, he got back with Malik and the two started battling with the workers.

Apparently, Malik over and over punched the worker whom his brother had battled with. In the mean time, Hernandez attempted to separate the battle. As per examiners, after he was fruitless in isolating the two, Hernandez took a kitchen blade and dove it two times into Malik’s middle.

As Bobby hauled his brother towards the front of the store and workers surged them out, Hernandez cut him multiple times.

Specialists said that the two brothers were hurried to Harlem Clinic, where Malik surrendered to his wounds, and Bobby got treatment for an imploded lung. The representative Malik supposedly went after was likewise hospitalized and was treated for wounds to his head and face, a messed up tooth, and staples to his scalp.

Hernandez let correspondents know that he lamented having the quarrel that killed Malik and harmed his brother. At the point when columnists inquired as to whether he had anything to tell the casualty’s family, Junior Aquino Hernandez said,

Specialists tracked down the blade at the scene. Bobby was likewise accused of theft, thievery, and attack.

The Manhattan Criminal Court conceded investigators’ solicitation to free Hernandez, excusing the homicide and different charges against him. Junior Aquino Hernandez, a wedded dad of four, didn’t have an earlier lawbreaker record.

The New York Post revealed that Hernandez’s better half, Estephanie Reyes, said that she accepts he was in a position where it was either his life or the other’s, or, in all likelihood he could never have done this. She said that she accepts that the demonstration was committed justifiably.

As referenced before, the store worker and Bobby Burrell are both recuperating from their wounds.