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A man was killed after falling on a broken bottle outside a Brooklyn, New York restaurant, according to emergency workers in Brooklyn, New York.
The Brooklyn man was killed early today when he fell and cut his arm on a broken bottle during a fight, police sources said.
Miguel Jimenez and a friend were expelled from Rodriguez La Cabana Restaurant on Flatbush Avenue near Beverley Road shortly before 4:00 am when they started fighting over who should pay the bill.
Jimenez and his friend got into a fight on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, and can be seen on surveillance video taking out a machete, the sources said.
Jimenez dropped the weapon when he and his friend decided to fight with fists instead, witnesses told police.
Out of sight of surveillance video, Jimenez fell on a sidewalk full of broken bottles and cut open his right biceps.
He got up and started chasing his friend, but soon collapsed outside a nearby pharmacy, sources said.
People on the street at the time called police, who found Jimenez bleeding profusely from his arm.
Jimenez died at 4:30 am at the Kings County Hospital. Police could not locate the friend of the man.
“The two shouldn't have physically fought over a restaurant bill, but I would like to know why there was broken glass bottles on the floor outside the restaurant. After all, the broken glass bottles caused the death of this man,” Jose Rodriguez, 29, of Brooklyn, New York told YourJewishNews.com.
Jimenez was a native of Mexico and lived nearby in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn New York.