The drama unfolded about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after Isayah Muller's commencement at Lehman College.
A standout running back, Isayah led the Truman High School Mustangs to their first-ever PSAL Bowl title in November. He planned to attend Nassau Community College in the fall.
"He told his mother, 'Don't worry mom, when I make it to the NFL I will take care of you, and the kids,'" Sostre said. "This is a huge loss for our family."
"They killed my boy," Andre Muller said behind tears Wednesday night at a vigil held for the teen at his great-grandmother's Hell's Kitchen home. "He was a good kid. I'm going to miss him every day."
The family initially left the parking lot and drove to City Island for a celebratory dinner. As Isayah Muller dined on his favorite shrimp dish, his father noticed the cologne he bought his son missing from a pile of gifts, Sostre said.
He and his family immediately drove back to the parking lot, where the deadly confrontation ensued.
The workers retreated from the shovel-wielding dad, whose lengthy rap sheet includes separate prison stints for heroin dealing and robbery.
The attendants locked themselves in the parking lot's shack, but Isayah Muller busted through the door. The unidentified worker plunged a homemade shank into the teen's chest and side. Andre Muller drove him to a nearby clinic. An ambulance rushed the son to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died.
"It just breaks my heart to see a young man who, on the day of his graduation, was stabbed," said city Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.
I may be in the minority in my opinion of this matter, but I completely agree that the father should be held responsible for his own son's death. While I can understand the sentiment and even agree that he had every right to be upset about the missing cologne, his response made a bad situation worse. Instead of acting like a civilized person should, reporting the theft, both to the police and the owners of the parking lot, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
As a result of that choice a fight ensued. In the course of that fight the two men being attacked defended themselves. In the process of them defending themselves his son was fatally stabbed. Now you have lost your son over a lousy bottle of cologne, and your pride.
Even the best case scenario would involve you and your son fighting a felony assault case and possible murder charges depending on how things played out. There was no way that choice was going to have a positive result.
Either way you don't get back the missing bottle of cologne, assuming you didn't just misplace it to begin with...
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