An employee of a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally stabbed outside the facility on Thursday night, say police.
A chilling incident occurred at a shelter set up in a Days Inn hotel on East New York Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood. The hotel was being used as temporary housing by the city.
Migrants arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital )
Reportedly, a 35-year-old employee, whose identity has not been disclosed, was viciously attacked at around 6:20 p.m. The employee managed to flee into the building seeking help but had already sustained severe stab wounds to the neck and abdomen. Emergency medical services found him bleeding heavily in the lobby and rushed him to Brookdale Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.
Emergency Medical Team of the Fire Department of New York (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
Police are seeking a male suspect, dressed in black, who was wearing a baseball cap and ski mask.
Currently, there are no details available about what led to this heinous assault. It is worth noting that the neighborhood has witnessed the conversion of several hotels into shelters for the homeless and has a history of dealing with various forms of violent crime.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams sits down for an interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. ((Fox News / The Story))
One neighbor stated in remarks to the New York Post that, “They turned all the hotels around here into shelters during COVID. There are four or five more around here. A lot of stabbings. A lot of trouble.”
New York City has been grappling with violent crime on its streets and public transport, a problem only exacerbated by a surge of illegal immigrants arriving without shelter. Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly expressed frustration with the federal government and argued that the city lacks the resources to care for them.
Since April of 2022, an estimated 220,000 migrants have poured into the city, with over 58,000 currently being cared for by New York City’s taxpayers, per reports from City Hall.
