Davide Giri was 30 years old, he had studied engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin, then obtained specializations and masters abroad
NEW YORK. An Italian Columbia University student was killed in Harlem during an assault in the street, Thursday evening around 11pm. And a few minutes later a tourist was also stabbed, perhaps an Italian too. The victim of the first episode is Davide Giri, 30, enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Science: the student was stabbed in the abdomen by a man, between 123rd Street West and Amsterdam Avenue. Rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, Giri is dead. A few minutes later, the police intervened for another stabbing, which took place not far from the first episode. A 27-year-old man, who according to local media is an Italian tourist, was stabbed on 110th Street West. He was hospitalized in conditions deemed “stable”. The police then arrested a man of about 25, who was in Central Park and who, shortly before, had threatened a person.
Davide Giri, originally from Alba, was 30 years old, had studied engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin, where he graduated with full marks and honors, then he specialized in electronics at Tongji University in Shanghai and had a master’s degree in engineering. electronics at the Polytechnic and one at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Since 2016, Giri, who had worked for Fiat Chrysler, was attending Columbia University in New York, where he also carried out – we read from his Linkedin profile and that on Columbia – also the role of assistant, to deepen his studies in applied philosophy and design. to the sciences. The student lived on the campus of the New York University, in room 467 of the Computer Science Building, at 500 West 120th Street, not far from where he was stabbed.
“This news is both unspeakably sad and deeply shocking, particularly as it happened just a few steps away from our campus,” University Chancellor Lee C. Bollinger wrote.
“On behalf of the entire Columbia community, I express my deepest condolences to David’s family.”
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