Consternation in New York after the accidental death of activist Ryan Carson at the hands of a man who stabbed him in the Crown Heights neighborhood (Brooklyn) last Monday. The police confirmed that the murder occurred around four in the morning without apparent motive.
Carson, 32, was returning with his partner from a wedding held on Long Island when they saw a violent attitude from a man a few meters in front of them in the middle of the street. Sources close to Carson say the suspect approached them and asked, “What are you looking at?” Then he approached him and stabbed him several times in the chest.
A security camera recorded the crime scene, to which the New York Post had access. The murderer left, spitting and cursing at the woman, helpless, next to Carson’s lying body.
At the moment there have been no arrests and the police are still searching for the hooded man – in the video it can be seen that moments before he had walked past the couple, sitting on a bench.
Carson was a prominent environmental activist and social justice advocate. With candles, dozens of family and friends gathered in a Bedford-Stuyvesant park to mourn his death.
For the past decade, Carson was campaign director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, most recently focusing on recycling and solid waste. “He was trying to deal with the unrecovered bottles and cans littering the streets of New York, but he had been involved in many projects with us over the years,” said Blair Horner, executive director of the Public Interest Research Group of NY.
“I am horrified to learn of the brutal murder of defender Ryan Carson in Brooklyn today,” lamented New York Councilman Chi Ossé, on X, formerly Twitter. “They stole this tireless defender of his neighbors from us. Committed to ending this senseless violence, my heart goes out to his family.”
