UAlbany student accused of slaying New York doorman

UAlbany senior Steven Figueroa was arrested early last week after police say he stabbed a Manhattan doorman to death.

Police told The New York Daily News that Figueroa, 22, killed Pasquale "Arthur" Esposito, 30, a doorman for an East side apartment building.

Witnesses told police that Figueroa and Esposito were arguing Saturday night on 80th Street near First Avenue. A few minutes later, witnesses saw Esposito staggering on the sidewalk, covered in blood, police said.

Police told reporters that the argument may have been over a woman.

Figueroa surrendered to police last week and was charged with second-degree murder, according to media reports.

Figueroa, a Bronx native, lived on the UAlbany campus on Dutch Quad. UAlbany spokesman Karl Luntta confirmed that Figueroa is a student at the university. It's unclear whether or not he will be expelled from UAlbany pending the outcome of the investigation.

Figueroa is the third UAlbany student since 2004 to be charged with murder.

Former UAlbany student Erick Westervelt was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend in 2005. And former student Mulumba Kazigo was charged with the murder of his father, a prominent Long Island surgeon.

News of the student's arrest shocked school administrators who said it doesn't fit with the young man they know.

"Steven was well regarded by his fellow college students," said Dr. Carson Carr, director of the Educational Opportunities Program, in an e-mail statement this past weekend. "His collegiate citizenship record was wholesome here and I am proud to know him."