A 44-year-old Guyanese who worked as a security guard in Manhattan was stabbed to death early Sunday morning behind a Brooklyn gas station as he walked home from a party.
According to a report in the New York Daily News, Anthony Blair was knifed in the neck along Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 2 am and was dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital a short time later, police said.
Blair, who had multiple prior arrests, was slain behind a Getty station near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Utica Avenue.
Police did not release information on a suspected motive for the killing and there were no arrests as of late Sunday afternoon.
Blair immigrated to New York from Guyana about 20 years ago, and had a security job in Manhattan, his girlfriend, Deborah Umadhan, who is the mother of the couple’s year-old son told the New York Daily News.
Blair had multiple prior arrests on his record, including busts for drug possession, shoplifting and threatening someone with two kitchen knives, a police source said.
Umadhan said she and Blair lived near the parking lot where he was slain.
“I came home and saw the ambulance. Then I saw him,” she said, choking back tears. “It was horrible.”
Singara Singh, 42, a clerk at the Getty station, said the police reviewed the footage from a security camera behind the store, hoping it had filmed the deadly encounter, the newspaper said.
Singh, of Queens, said the gas station is surrounded by a rough neighbourhood.
“It’s very dangerous here. You have a lot of projects nearby,” he said.
