Brooklyn Park Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Stabbing

Aug 22

A Brooklyn Park man is facing charges after authorities say he stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s partner in the chest during a late-night confrontation.

According to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Hennepin County, 44-year-old Lenin Zenguana Pati has been charged with attempted second-degree murder with intent, not premeditated, in connection with the stabbing of a man on Wednesday, Aug. 20.

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Officers were dispatched just after midnight to a residence on the 5800 block of 73rd Avenue North, where they found the victim lying on a staircase with his shirt saturated in blood and an actively bleeding wound near his collar bone. Police applied a chest seal and performed lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived. He was rushed to North Memorial Medical Center, where doctors performed surgery.

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Investigators learned that the victim had gone to the apartment to drop off his and a woman’s 3-year-old daughter and stayed to help put her to bed. While he was still there, Pati arrived and began arguing with the woman, pushing her into a wall and punching her in the face. When the victim came out of the bedroom after hearing the altercation, Pati ran down the hallway with the victim following. The woman told police she saw the two outside, where Pati pushed the victim, concealed a knife under his shirt and stabbed him before fleeing the scene.

Police said Pati’s whereabouts remain unknown. An arrest warrant was issued, with bail set at $1 million. Pati faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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