An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend a friend's birthday party, and had joined some pals to toss a football around in the parking lot around 11:30 p.m. An NYPD spokesman tells us that he was fatally stabbed in the torso during a confrontation with another group who appeared in the parking lot, located on Grand Street between Lorimer and Leonard. Soto was pronounced dead on arrival at Woodhull hospital.
No arrests have been made, and we're told the investigation is ongoing. According to the Post, after the group approached, "heated words were exchanged, and violence broke out." Distraught neighbors in Soto's Bronx neighborhood describe Soto as a good kid who didn't drink or party. “He was very kind, and respectful,” his friend Jennifer Quiroz tells the Daily News. "He would make friends with anyone."
