NEW YORK.- The Police arrested a former convict suspected of the death of former Dominican basketball player Sergio Bidó García on January 1st in front of a building on College Avenue, near East 170th Street, in the Bronx.
Ira Shane, 52, who served a 21-year sentence for attempted murder, was charged with fatally stabbing Bidó, 63, just before 4:00 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Shane was apprehended on Tuesday afternoon after a witness tipped off the police.
He faces charges of murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.
Bidó, 63, was reportedly arguing with his girlfriend and someone started filming with a cell phone. A witness said the woman got angry at the person filming and that led to an altercation between the couple and a group of strangers who came to the defense of the person filming.
Supposedly, Shane pulled out a knife and stabbed Bidó in the neck and his girlfriend in the breast.
The witness stated that Bidó covered his wound with one hand, got into his vehicle with his girlfriend, and drove to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where he collapsed and was declared dead.
The woman, 38, was treated and is in stable condition.
Communicator and sports leader Wilfredo Soriano (Felinchy) described the victim as “a great human being, very hard working and affable.” “He worked with me on the organization of the recent Games of the Nation that were held in New York,” he recalled.
He said Bido played professional basketball for teams in Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros.