Post by abbey1227 on Jul 31, 2022 16:29:55 GMT
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NYC shop employee charged in deadly stabbing of homeless man who violently attacked elderly manager: report
Danielle Wallace Sun, July 31, 2022 at 7:57 AM·2 min read
A New York City smoke shop employee has been arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing of a 59-year-old homeless man who allegedly picked a fight with the store’s elderly manager.
The New York Police Department said it responded around noon Saturday to a 911 call about a man stabbed at the Magic 7 Smoke Shop located at 174 W. Fordham Road in the Bronx.
Upon arrival, officers observed a homeless man, later identified as 59-year-old Kenneth Fair, unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the neck.
EMS responded and transported the seriously injured man to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was later pronounced deceased.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim "was involved in a verbal dispute with a store employee in front of the location when the 54-year-old suspect (also a store employee) approached the victim from behind and stabbed the victim in the neck," according to the police department.
Kenneth Gowdy, 54, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the incident, police said.
The violent episode reportedly began when the homeless man complained as the smoke shop’s 78-year-old manager carried boxes into the store, according to N.Y. Daily News, which cited police sources. Fair allegedly intentionally bumped into the shop manager, before then taking a swing at the elderly man.
That’s when Gowdy, who works at the shop and lives around the corner, came up behind the homeless man and stabbed him in the neck, according to the newspaper.
The manager was not charged in connection with Saturday's deadly incident.
Gowdy reportedly has nine prior arrests, the most recent of which was in 2011 for a forcible touching charge. Meanwhile, Fair’s arrest record stretched back to 1989 and included multiple assaults, robbery and criminal weapon possession charges, a source told the newspaper.
NYC shop employee charged in deadly stabbing of homeless man who violently attacked elderly manager: report
Danielle Wallace Sun, July 31, 2022 at 7:57 AM·2 min read
A New York City smoke shop employee has been arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing of a 59-year-old homeless man who allegedly picked a fight with the store’s elderly manager.
The New York Police Department said it responded around noon Saturday to a 911 call about a man stabbed at the Magic 7 Smoke Shop located at 174 W. Fordham Road in the Bronx.
Upon arrival, officers observed a homeless man, later identified as 59-year-old Kenneth Fair, unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the neck.
EMS responded and transported the seriously injured man to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was later pronounced deceased.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim "was involved in a verbal dispute with a store employee in front of the location when the 54-year-old suspect (also a store employee) approached the victim from behind and stabbed the victim in the neck," according to the police department.
Kenneth Gowdy, 54, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the incident, police said.
The violent episode reportedly began when the homeless man complained as the smoke shop’s 78-year-old manager carried boxes into the store, according to N.Y. Daily News, which cited police sources. Fair allegedly intentionally bumped into the shop manager, before then taking a swing at the elderly man.
That’s when Gowdy, who works at the shop and lives around the corner, came up behind the homeless man and stabbed him in the neck, according to the newspaper.
The manager was not charged in connection with Saturday's deadly incident.
Gowdy reportedly has nine prior arrests, the most recent of which was in 2011 for a forcible touching charge. Meanwhile, Fair’s arrest record stretched back to 1989 and included multiple assaults, robbery and criminal weapon possession charges, a source told the newspaper.
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My empathy bucket regarding the chronically homeless and the mentally ill criminal element is completely empty.
I'll pay the extra taxes to tough love the situation and incarcerate this scourge.
Is this for real?! The homeless man attacked an older person. Why is the person defending the victim charged for anything? They should be given a golden medal and cash! Us, New Yorkers should go out and protest to get rid of these politicians and law makers.
Ah yes, New York, a cesspool like California, where the criminals have more rights than the law abiding. The employee should get a medal and promotion for saving the life of the owner, and taking the trash out for good.
They keep voting the same way year in and year out and keep getting the same results! Lets not thank the hero that did society a favor, lets make him a villain and make the perpetrator a victim! Just one less burden on society and if that what it takes, to have law and order because of cowardly law...See more
Typical Law Enforcement act in crime. They almost always charge the good guys first because they could not do anything to the bad guys. Cowardice at its best.
Employee did the right thing.
the department of corrections and rehab is obviously broken as are the vast majority of repeat offenders. either you learn to coexist peacefully with society, or be put down like the rabid dog you are. sick of the arrest, jail, release, repeat sheet.
As a taxpaying citizen, the left says you're just supposed to
'tąķę íţ ųp ţhę ১', because the homeless, criminals, and other nefarious percentage based groups now have all the rights you no longer have.
Good Samaritan he is. One less career criminal thug on the streets.
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