EAST ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A man was fatally stabbed during an argument outside a family shelter in Queens Tuesday night.
It happened at the Landing Family Shelter on Ditmars Boulevard next to LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst.
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The building is called the Landing Hotel, but it is actually a homeless shelter for families.
Investigators arrived at the scene shortly before 10 p.m. to find a 38-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive outside the shelter with a stab wound to his torso.
The victim, Abdul Silas, was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
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Police say he lived at the shelter for about a year.
Back in 2015, some neighbors complained that the city converted the hotel to a shelter without enough notice or input.
UPDATE: Police announced the arrest of 34-year-old Ricardo Henry in connection with this case. They say Henry was evicted from the homeless shelter last month and stabbed Silas as part of an ongoing dispute.
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