An IHOP employee was fatally stabbed and another man was slashed at a Brooklyn franchise of the pancake eatery , police said Saturday.
Cops rushed to the scene where 67-year-old Hector Reinoso-Perez was stabbed in the torso around 10:39 p.m. Friday inside the restaurant near Flatlands Ave. and Louisiana Ave. in East New York after a scuffle with his attacker. A 41-year-old man was also slashed in the hand during the altercation.
EMS transported Reinoso-Perez to Brookdale University Hospital where he later died of his injuries. The other victim was not hospitalized.
“We are aware of the tragic incident that took place at our Flatlands, Brooklyn, location in which one of our team members passed following a physical altercation,” Bernardo DeJesus, an IHOP spokesperson, said. “Our tho