NYC football hero stabbed to death
Star Truman High School football player Isayah Muller was stabbed to death in The Bronx on Tuesday, just hours after his graduation.
Police said that the incident happened after an argument between his father, Andre Muller, and attendants in a parking lot over property missing from the family car.
Andre Muller accused the attendants of stealing the property, police said, and a fight erupted, resulting in the stabbing of the 19-year-old running back.
Isayah Muller — who led his school to the city championship last fall — attended the graduation ceremony with his dad, mom and girlfriend at Lehman College and then went to retrieve their car.
As they headed to a City Island restaurant afterward, Andre Muller noticed that his son's graduation present of cologne was missing, turned the car around and returned to the garage, the New York Post reported.
When they arrived at the lot on Jerome Avenue and E. 196th Street around 4 p.m. local time, the father and son began fighting with the workers. Isayah Muller was stabbed in the chest during the fight.
After the stabbing, his father drove him to a nearby clinic, and he was then taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 6 p.m. local time.
The parking attendants and Andre Muller were being interviewed by police, but no charges had been laid as of early Wednesday.
Isayah Muller was renowned for his rushing, including a 285-yard, two-touchdown performance against top-seeded Beach Channel in November that led Truman to the PSAL Bowl Division championship.
"The kid had all the intangibles that makes football players great," his coach, John-James Shepherd, told the New York Post. "He was as loyal a teammate as anyone could ask for, and he was as good of a kid that anyone could hope to come across. I'm in a state of disbelief."