Stabbing Suspect Surrenders, Is Arraigned

A Manhattan man has been arraigned on attempted murder and robbery charges in the stabbing last week of a Chinese food deliveryman in an Astoria housing development.
Tape from the building's surveillance cameras allegedly shows the defendant coming to the scene of the attack and thereafter leaving holding a knife.
&#8220It is alleged that the victim [39-year-old Jian Lin Huang] was lured to the Ravenswood House on the pretext of delivering a food order to an apartment on the fifth floor,” said District Attorney Richard A. Brown. &#8220He had no way of knowing that the man who would allegedly attack him minutes later shared the same elevator with him.”
Brown said that the defendant is alleged to have exited the elevator on the fourth floor and then to have run up the stairs to the next flight.
&#8220Once the deliveryman was alone on the fifth floor, the defendant allegedly jumped out from the stairway and attacked the victim, grabbing him around the neck and stabbing him multiple times in his arm and upper body,” Brown continued.
During the attack, Huang began to scream loudly and the defendant allegedly fled the location through a stairwell door.
The defendant has been identified as David Moore, 22, of 365 West 118th Street in Manhattan, who surrendered to the Queens District Attorney's Office's NYPD Squad on October 25.
He was arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Alex J. Zigman on charges of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree attempted robbery, first-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.
Moore was ordered held on $300,000 bail.
The victim is expected to make a full recovery.