A 35-year-old man has died in the Norwood section of The Bronx following a night-time stabbing on Webster Avenue, police said. An NYPD spokesperson said that on Saturday, March 28, at around 9.52 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a man who had been stabbed opposite 3210 Webster Avenue, located parallel with Parkside Place, and near East 205th Street.

 

“Upon arrival, officers observed a 35-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the torso,” a police spokesperson said. “EMS responded and transported the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. There are no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing.”

 

The victim was later identified as Ramon Vasquez from the Tremont / Crotona section of The Bronx.

 

Next to some blood stains at the crime scene, a bloodied pole was seen lying underneath a weed truck. Norwood News asked the NYPD if the victim had been bludgeoned as well as stabbed and a spokesperson at the press office was unable to confirm.

A gas station and auto repair shop are located across the street from the van. An employee at the gas station who was not working the previous night said when he looked at the security footage from the previous evening, it looked like some people dressed in jackets with an ICE logo on them were present at the crime scene along with police.

Norwood News asked ICE for comment and a spokesperson replied Monday, saying, “ICE NYC confirms that they were not involved here.”

 

An employee at the auto repair shop said they had closed the previous evening at around 6 p.m. prior to the stabbing. View a video of the crime scene here.

A local resident later told Norwood News, “I was sleeping and I heard some noises like cops going. I thought it was something was on it right here [in her building, which is located near the crime scene].

Asked if she saw the police place two people in handcuffs, she said she did, gesturing with her hands behind her back. Asked what they looked like, she said, “I don’t know. I just saw it from up here. I think it was like Mexican or something. I don’t know.” She continued, “It was like two ambulances, one here and the other side. One of them took the guy to the hospital.”

 

Asked if she had heard anything like screams prior to that, she said, “No, nothing, nothing, nothing ’cause I was upstairs and sometimes, you never know around here what happened and then, people stay quiet, and people don’t say nothin’ So I was like ok, maybe something happened. Let me see if I can go downstairs but then I see a bunch of cops so I was like let me get upstairs because they’re going to ask me what happened.”

She continued, “So, the guy with the ambulance, they took him, and then they took two guys, arrested, a young guy and  the other one.”

 

We mentioned that the employee at the gas station had mentioned that he thought ICE agents were at the crime scene the previous evening with the NYPD and asked the woman if she had noticed anything. She said, “Yeah, because the thing is I saw one of them was walking that way and then one of them, had like the vest.”

We asked if she meant a bulletproof vest and if it read NYPD on the vest? “Yeah, I saw it from far away.” She said she couldn’t see if it read ICE on the vest or not.

 

Asked if she could describe the person in the vest she saw, the woman said, “I don’t know because it was dark. He had like a long sleeve, his own shirt, and then the other one had the vest. This is a cop. Everyone was just like a cop. I saw a lot of cops and then I saw something different… I don’t know what. And then the people who were taken, both of them,  one of them, I think, they took them to the precinct, the 52 precinct and the other one went right behind.”

 

Later on Sunday night when the police crime scene unit arrived to carry out their investigation, they marked a separate smaller weapon positioned beside a wheel of the truck as evidence and placed it in a bag for evidence. The larger weapon seen next to the blood stains was not taken into evidence.

 

Asked how many cops she saw, she said, “I don’t know. Maybe five or six.”  The woman added, “This block never be like that before.” The employee at the gas station said there was not usually any trouble in the area either. Norwood News had previously reported on a car fire in the area.

A gas station is located opposite the site of a murder on March 28, 2026 at 3210 Webster Ave, The Bronx, as seen March 29, 2026. Video by Síle Moloney

We followed up with the NYPD and asked if anyone had been taken into custody and a spokesperson said they were unable to confirm.

 

On Friday, April 2, a floral and candle tribute was seen on the side of Webster Avenue at the location where Vasquez died, along with some photos of the victim.

Prior to this date, a resident had said they had seen the weed truck parked opposite the 52nd Precinct stationhouse, located at 3016 Webster Avenue, next to Mosholu Parkway, seemingly being dusted for fingerprints. It was no longer opposite the stationhouse on Friday night, April 2.

 

As reported, a 21-year-old man was shot in the head and killed just two days earlier on Thursday, March 26, beside Woodlawn subway station also in Norwood.

 

 

A number of anti-gun violence rallies have been held in recent weeks in the north Bronx following a spate of recent shootings, which unlike the general downward trend seen across the City, have gone up in The Bronx. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch recently announced that the borough would be split into two distinct patrol borough commands to meet the needs of the community.