Two men have been arrested in the fatal stabbing of two brothers outside a party in the Bronx, police announced Wednesday.
Melquiceded Grullon Cepeda, 27, and Nelson Quezada, 34, face charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the brazen Oct. 13 stabbing deaths of brothers Hector, 24, and Leider Guevara Cubas, 27, a married dad of a 4-year-old son.
The brothers, who worked in construction, were at a party with their mom’s cousin on Stratford Ave. near Westchester Ave. in Soundview when their relative decided to go home. The brothers then went to a second party down the block, where around 4:50 a.m., they got into a fight with a group of men that ended with both siblings stabbed, according to police. The brothers were rushed to Jacobi Medical Center but they could not be saved.
Cepeda was arrested Wednesday night and Quezada was arrested Oct. 28, cops said. Cepeda faces additional charges of gang assault.
“I want them to do an investigation. I want justice,” Leider Guevara Cubas’ wife Merly told The News after the deaths of her husband and brother-in-law. “They left our whole family devastated. It hurts all of our family and all of our family are heartbroken. They took two good innocent people and one has a child. I want the people that did this to them to go to jail.”
