Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Man Killed on Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue

The 27-year-old was stabbed in the neck along the route of the West Indian-American Day Carnival Parade.

 

 

Update: Sept. 4, 12:37 p.m.:  Police have released the name of the vicitim of the Bedford Avenue stabbing. He is Leandre Mallinckrodt, 27, of Monroe, New York. 

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In addition, the NYPD has identified the man arrested in the murder on St. Johns place near Utica Avenue. Gabriel Hernandez, 21, of Fort Greene, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.   

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A 27-year-old man was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital after he was stabbed in the neck at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue Monday evening.

The attack took place just before 6 p.m., moments before the  ended. The parade marched along Eastern Parkway from Rochester Avenue to Grand Army Plaza, police said.

The murder was one of several acts of violence that happened along the West Indian Labor Day Carnival Parade's route.

A 26-year-old man was stabbed in the neck on St. Johns Place near Utica Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene, according to the NYPD. 

In addition, a 24-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man were both shot in the upper leg on Eastern Parkway near New York Avenue and are in stable condition, an NYPD spokesman said. 


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