An employee of a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally stabbed outside the establishment Thursday evening, police said.
The horrific incident occurred at a Days Inn hotel that had been turned into a shelter by the city on East New York Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood.
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The 35-year-old employee, who remains unnamed, was attacked around 6:20 p.m. and then rushed into the building for help. He was stabbed multiple times in the neck and abdomen and was bleeding profusely in the lobby when medics arrived, who transported him to Brookdale Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
New York Fire Department Emergency Medical Team (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
Police are looking for a suspect, dressed in black, who wore a baseball cap and a ski mask.
As of yet, there is no information on what precipitated this horrific attack, but the area has seen several hotels converted into homeless housing and has seen its fair share of violent crime in the past.
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One neighbor said in remarks to the New York Post: “They turned all the hotels around here into shelters during COVID. There are four or five more around here. Lots of stabbings. Lots of problems.
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New York City is struggling with violent crime on its streets and on public transportation, a problem that has only been exacerbated by a wave of illegal immigrants arriving without shelter. Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly expressed frustration with the federal government and argued that the city did not have the resources to take care of them.
Since April 2022, approximately 220,000 migrants have flocked to the city, more than 58,000 of whom are currently supported by New York City taxpayers, according to City Hall reports.
