NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An argument sparked a deadly stabbing at a sprawling downtown Manhattan nightclub early Saturday, police said.
Jean Muller, 25, of Elizabeth, N.J., was stabbed in the torso shortly before 3 a.m. outside Strata, a multilevel dance club and restaurant in the Flatiron district, police said. He died shortly after being taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Muller was stabbed after an argument outside the nightclub. Police had taken one person in for questioning early Saturday, but let him go. So far, no suspects have been arrested.
A woman who answered the phone at Strata said she knew nothing about the stabbing. A telephone message left for club managers early Saturday wasn't immediately returned.
The deadly stabbing came amid heightened attention to nightclub safety in New York, and less than six months after the City Council passed a measure requiring security cameras at nightclub doors.
The city trained a spotlight on club security after a woman was abducted, raped and killed in February 2006 after a night out at a SoHo bar. An unlicensed bouncer at the bar was charged in her death.
Also last year, a New Jersey teenager wandered away from a friend after leaving a club in the Chelsea neighborhood, and was later found beaten and strangled. Separately, a bouncer was accused of killing one man and wounding three others in a shooting spree outside a lounge in the same area.
This February, a shoving match at another Chelsea club sent one patron tumbling down an elevator shaft to his death. Another clubgoer was initially charged with criminally negligent homicide, but the charges were dropped.
Photo by 1010 WINS Reporter Sonia Rincon
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