Cops Search For 2 People Connected To UWS Double Stabbing

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — Cops have released photos of two people they believe are connected to the fatal double stabbing in the Douglass Houses last week.

Two people caught on surveillance video "in the vicinity at the time of the incident" are wanted for questioning about the stabbing, which left a 36-year-old and 21-year-old man with multiple stab wounds in a hallway Thursday night, according to police.

The younger victim was previously said to be a teenager, but police confirmed Monday that it was 21-year-old Dominic Barrera, who family told the West Side Rag is known as Domo. The other victim was Octavio Figueroa, known to many as Mousy, according to police and the West Side Rag.

Barrera and Figueroa were found with multiple stab wounds just after 8:30 p.m. in a third-floor hallway at 868 Amsterdam Ave., a building in the New York City Housing Authority's Frederick Douglass Houses.

Figueroa lived in the building where the two were found and Barrera in a building a few blocks away, records show.

Both of the men were rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

Police are investigating the killings as a homicide.

Police released several photos and a video of the two people that are wanted for questioning:

Anyone with information in regard to the identities of these individuals is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.