LI Man Stabs 2 Roommates, Crashes Stolen Car: Police

LINDENHURST, NY — A Copiague man was arrested after he stabbed two roommates and crashed a stolen car Tuesday afternoon, police said.

According to Suffolk County Police, the incident took place at 1:20 p.m. on West Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst. James Domanico was involved in a dispute with his roommate, Latoya Rolle; he stabbed her multiple times on West Montauk Highway, police said.

Next, the two got into a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee owned and driven by an acquaintance, Arielle Itzkowitz, and drove to Miramar Boulevard, where Domanico stabbed another person in the vehicle, Joseph Zuck, police said.

On Miramar Boulevard, Domanico took the Jeep and fled the scene, police said. About 15 minutes later, Domanico crashed the vehicle into a tree on Albert Street in Lindenhurst and then fled in the vehicle, police said.

The Jeep was found abandoned in the northbound left lane of New York State Route 231, near Hale Road, at 1:50 p.m., police said.

Domenico was transported by another acquaintance to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries sustained in the crash, police said.

Both Rolle, 36, and Zuck, 37, were taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries; Itzkowitz was not injured and Domanico was released from the hospital later in the afternoon, police said.

Domanico, 36, of West Santa Barbara Road, was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree assault; two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon; and one count of third-degree larceny, police said.

He was held overnight at the Third Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday, police said.