Stephen Fasano is shown in a 2008 photo.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A Midland Beach man who surrendered to authorities in connection with the fatal brawl at the Drunken Monkey bar in West Brighton has been formally charged in the incident.

Stephen Fasano, 23, of the 400 block of Bedford Ave., has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, recklessly causing the death of a person, and third-degree assault, police announced Tuesday, hours after he turned himself in at the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse, St. George.

Fasano was accompanied by his attorney, Louis E. Diamond, when he surrendered.

The early-morning incident left 46-year-old Abdul Cisse dead with a fractured skull, after police say he was felled by a single punch outside the bar.

"My client's a young man, a very nice young man, he's 23 years old. We surrendered him the easiest way possible. I believe the charges are going to be assault in the third degree and manslaughter two. That's what it sounds like so far. We'll find out tomorrow for sure when they draw up the final papers," Diamond said.

The bar is affiliated with "Mob Wives" star Angela "Big Ang" Raiola -- she runs the bar, according to promotional material for a spin-off TV series about her. Her cousin, SallyAnn Lombardi, identifies herself as the bar's owner, and Ms. Lombardi's name appears on the liquor license.

"If there was a punch -- you know, until they write up the papers, I don't know what they're going to say. And I don't want to impose anything upon the detectives until they sit down with the D.A."

Diamond wouldn't expand on his "if there was a punch," remark.

"There was an altercation in the place, my client was attacked and then it escalated, and then it ended very quickly and he took off. At the time he left, he didn't even know what happened. He didn't know the results of it," Diamond said.

Diamond said Fasano is a graduate of a private Catholic high school, where he played basketball. "Lovely guy... Works four years, straight years at the same job. He goes to work every day."

Advance records show he played basketball for Moore Catholic High School.

Cisse, a native of Senegal and father of two, worked as a machinist at a shipyard on Richmond Terrace, according to his neighbors in Elm Park.

He was a regular customer at the Drunken Monkey, according to Ms. Lombardi.

"He was not just a customer, but a gentle giant that I loved," Big Ang has posted on both Instagram and Twitter.

Diamond said on Monday that Fasano went to the bar with two other men and a woman -- who was dating one of the men in the group -- that night.

A group of older men were sitting at the bar, when one of them started chatting with the woman. Fasano told the older man, 'She has a boyfriend, knock it off,' Diamond recounted.

When Fasano's group tried to leave, a patron recognized Fasano as someone he had gotten into a dispute with about a week earlier, the attorney said. That patron -- who's not believed to be Cisse -- sliced Diamond's client in the arm and ribs with "some sort of shiv or boxcutter," the attorney said.

Cisse came out of the crowd as Fasano was trying to leave. "I don't know what he did. He's in a daze because he's surrounded by all these guys and he's trying to keep them off him," Diamond said on Monday.

Before Fasano left, he said, a large man -- possibly a bouncer, though he never identified himself as one -- started choking him.

Police say that Cisse was trying to break up a fight when he was punched.

According to police, the incident started as a one-on-one fight inside the bar -- the suspect in Cisse's death approached a man watching a boxing match at the bar and started punching him. That man, who wasn't Cisse, fought back, and both ended up tossed from the bar, according to cops.

Cisse then approached the suspect outside the bar in an attempt to calm him down, and got a punch to the face for his trouble, according to police. Cisse dropped to the ground, police said.