Police Look Into Fatal Blissville Fight
Police are currently investigating the Thursday, Sept. 6 death of a Flushing man outside a gas station in the Blissville section of Long Island City after a reported fight with a station employee.
According to NYPD sources, officers responded to a 911 call at about 6 a.m. to an assault in a gas station on Van Dam Street off Review Avenue.
Upon arrival, the cops found 28- year-old Oscar Arzeno, of Franklin Avenue in Flushing, unconscious and unresponsive. Emergency services personnel transported him to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A 27-year-old man was taken into custody at the scene, but no charges against the man have been reported as of press time.
According to news reports, the man was an employee of the gas station who got into a scuffle with Arzeno, who was reportedly belligerent at the scene when he was unable to retrieve cash from an automatic teller machine. The fight reportedly proved fatal for Arzeno.
The investigation is ongoing, police stated.
