Cops: Man Charged in Knife Brawl That Heated Up Again At Hospital

A man has been charged with a Greenport parking lot brawl between three men that continued in the hospital emergency room last weekend, police said.

According to Southold Town Police, Hraklis C. Morris, 36, of Greenport, was arrested Sunday morning at 9:20 a.m. at police headquarters.

Morris, police said, was arrested after an investigation regarding a brawl that allegedly broke out on Nov. 17 at 12:17 a.m. between three men in the Adams Street parking lot in Greenport.

Morris and the victim were both injured in the altercation and taken to Eastern Long Island Hospital by friends, police said. 

Morris was charged with assault in the first degree, a felony, for causing serious physical injury by means of a knife to the 24-year-old Shelter Island victim, police said. 

At the hospital, the altercation heated up again, police said; Morris allegedly then attacked a 33-year-old Southold resident in the emergency room at 12:31 a.m.; he was charged with assault in the third degree, a felony, for that incident.

Emergency room staff initially reported injuries sustained while trying to subdue Morris, but no charges have yet been brought with respect to those claims, police said. 

Morris was arraigned in Southold Town Justice Court early Sunday afternoon and was remanded without bail to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility. He is due back in Southold Justice Court later this week.

Two of the men sustained serious lacerations and were treated at ELIH, police said; a third man, who was injured seriously, was transferred to Stony Brook University Hospital.