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Amityville man arrested in stabbing case

Originally published: September 18, 2011 1:31 PM
Updated: September 21, 2011 5:59 PM
By JENNIFER BARRIOS  jennifer.barrios@newsday.com

Jonathan Garcia of Amityville was arrested on charges

Photo credit: SCPD/ | Jonathan Garcia of Amityville was arrested on charges that he fatally stabbed another man in North Amityville last December. (Sept. 18, 2011)

An Amityville man was arrested Sunday on charges that he fatally stabbed another man outside a North Amityville home in December, Suffolk police said.

Jonathan Garcia, 22, was charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Nicholas Murphy, 23, of Bay Shore, outside an Emerald Lane North home in the early morning of Dec. 21, 2010.

Murphy was taken a short distance away by...

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