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Man fatally stabbed inside Astoria nightclub early Monday morning: NYPD

Agenda, Astoria, photo taken during construction on Jan. 11, 2023 (Photo by Michael Dorgan)

Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing inside an Astoria nightclub early Monday morning that left a 55-year-old man dead and a suspect on the run. File photo by Michael Dorgan

Nov. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry

A Westchester man was stabbed to death inside an Astoria nightclub early Monday morning, according to the NYPD, after an argument escalated into violence.

Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress inside Agenda, a restaurant and lounge at 28-18 31st Street just before 2:30 a.m. Officers found the victim with a stab wound to his chest.

EMS responded to the crime scene and rushed the wounded man to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short while later, police said Monday. He was later identified as Percy Forrest, 55, of Port Chester. An NYPD spokeswoman refuted reports that a person of interest was taken into custody, adding that there have been no arrests and that the investigation remains ongoing. 

Agenda opened in March 2023 near the 30th Avenue subway station at the intersection of 31st Street and Newtown Road. The 13,000-square-foot ground floor space previously housed Don Coqui, a well-known Puerto Rican nightclub that closed in 2020.

Anyone with information regarding this homicide investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.

Through Nov. 3, the 114th Precinct has reported one murder so far this year, six fewer than the 7 homicides reported at the same point last year, a decline of 85.7%, according to the most recent CompStat report.

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