Man indicted for murder in Ithaca Arthaus stabbing

A Tompkins County grand jury has indicted a man accused of stabbing 35-year-old Lasalle D. Hargrove to death in Ithaca. Shawn T. Taylor, 45, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to a Friday news release from the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office. The charges stem from Hargrove’s Sept. 24 death at the Ithaca Arthaus, a supportive housing complex on Cherry Street in Ithaca’s West End. Police responded to the building around 6 p.m. that day and found Hargrove injured. Hargrove was taken to a medical facility, where he later died from his injuries. Taylor was arrested about a week and a half after Hargrove’s death. Under New York law, second-degree murder typically alleges that a person intentionally caused another person’s death, usually without prior planning. First-degree manslaughter usually alleges a person intended to seriously injure another person, resultin