Months after a 75-year-old man died at a Manhattan hospital, investigators have deemed his death a homicide -- from a bar stabbing in 1968.
Roy Evans of Harlem died at St. Luke's Hospital on March 21.
Nine months later, on Tuesday, Dec. 29, the New York City medical examiner deemed the death a homicide from "complications of a remote stab wound" to the torso, with injury to the spinal cord.
High-blood pressure and diabetes were also contributing conditions to Evans' death, according to the medical examiner's office.
The torso wound was the result of a stabbing that happened at a bar in 1968, police said. The NYPD didn't immediately have more information on the decades-old stabbing and couldn't say if an arrest was made in the attack.
A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said she couldn't release specifics on the case because of privacy practices and the homicide classification.
In general, however, if a death can be traced directly to an old would caused by the action of another person -- no matter how old that wound -- a death can be declared a homicide, officials say.
