THE BRONX — A 21-year-old man died Saturday nearly three months after he and five other men were hurt in a brawl that involved baseball bats and a gun outside Fordham's Xtreme Lounge, police said.
Armani Gonzalez, of Tremont, was outside the club at 2510 Valentine Ave., near East Fordham Road, just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 5 when Zaire Bansey, 19, and Peter Hajdari, 18, attacked him, police and Bronx prosecutors said.
Five men who were with Gonzalez tried to intervene, sparking a large fight that quickly escalated, involving a baseball bat, knives and eventually a gun, police said.
Bansey and Hajdari shot Gonzalez in the head, prosecutors said. He was pronounced dead on Dec. 27 in St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.
Though Gonzalez was the intended target, another man he was with, Dennis Rodriguez, 24, was shot in the torso during the fight and killed, police said.
A 26-year-old man's involved in the melee was bashed in the head with a baseball bat, a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg, a 23-year-old victim was slashed in the torso and a 22-year-old was slashed in the face, according to police. The men were also treated at St. Barnabas and were listed in stable condition shortly after the fight, police said.
Bansey, of Castle Hill, and Hajdari, of Westchester Square, were both charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, according to prosecutors.
Both are being held at Rikers Island and are due back in court on March 10, 2015, jail records show.
Bansey's attorney, Martin Goldberg, said his client was not behind the two men's deaths.
"He denies any responsibility for it," Goldberg said.
Hajdari's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
