A Staten Island man was fatally stabbed outside of a restaurant where he and his fiancee had been celebrating their recent engagement. According to the Times, Antonio Lacertosa, 27, went to check on an argument happening outside España Restaurant around 2 a.m. this morning when a man—possibly an employee of the restaurant—stabbed him in the torso with a knife. “He had everything,” said his sister Antonia Lacertosa. “He would have made a great father.”
The group had started the night elsewhere, and gone to España's for a round of drinks to cap off the celebration. It's unclear what the initial argument was over, but Lacertosa said that her brother, a union bricklayer, was not part of it. She described it as “a couple of words thrown back and forth.” One way or another, her brother got into a confrontation with another man, who law enforcement sources said went back into the restaurant, got a knife, and stabbed him. No arrests have been made as of this afternoon, but police are still investigating the death.
“No one would ever say anything bad about my brother," said Lacertosa about her brother, who was to be married in the next year. “He was a great brother, son, uncle, friend. He was big, and muscular, but he was a teddy bear.”
