Man On Trial For Murdering Friend In Fight About A Woman: Reports

CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN — A man is being tried for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death in a fight over a woman, according to reports and court records.

Chad Hollingsworth allegedly stabbed his friend Willis Young, 27, in a car near the intersection of Grand and Gates avenues on July 22, 2015, according to a DNAinfo New York report.

Hollingsworth later told police he grabbed Young’s knife and stabbed him repeatedly in the torso, arms and neck with Young’s own knife, DNAinfo reported.

Young, a Kings County Hospital counselor, died there on Aug. 3, 2015, after doctors had removed his spleen and a kidney, according to the Daily News.

Hollingsworth is currently being tried in Brooklyn Criminal Court for 14 charges that include murder and manslaughter, court records show.

During opening statements on Monday, prosecutor Viviane Dussek argued Hollingsworth attacked Young in a fight over a women the two men had met in a bar earlier that night, the Daily News reported.

But Hollingsworth’s attorney Stephen Drummond suggested police arrested the wrong man and named Stephon Taylor — a third friend who had been out with Young and Hollingsworth that night — as a possible suspect.

Taylor did not appear in court and Hollingsworth, whom the Daily News reported is the son of an NYPD officer, is out on $300,000 bail, court records show.

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