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18-year-old arrested in connection with brutal murder of NYC social justice activist, stabbed repeatedly in front of his girlfriend
A social justice advocate was slaughtered in front of his anti-cop girlfriend in New York City earlier this week. Police have made an arrest in the case.
Brian Dowling, an 18-year-old who has reportedly had previous run-ins with the law, is believed to be the individual seen in surveillance footage stabbing 32-year-old Ryan Carson and then fleeing. Police circulated the suspect's image Wednesday afternoon and identified him shortly thereafter. He is now in custody at the New York Police Department's 81st Precinct.
WANTED FOR MURDER: On 10/2/23 @ 3:50 AM, at Malcolm X Blvd & Lafayette Ave in the confines of the 81st Precinct, the above individual stabbed the victim multiple times, causing his demise. Any info, please call the @NYPDTips at 800-577-TIPS.— NYPD 81st Precinct (@NYPD 81st Precinct) 1696350026
The stabbing
TheBlaze previously reported that surveillance footage shows Carson and his girlfriend — alleged BLM activist Claudia Morales — seated Monday morning at a bus stop bench near Malcolm X Blvd. The two were on their way home from a wedding on Long Island.
The suspect walks past the couple without exchanging any words around 3:50 a.m. Down the block, he starts kicking over parked scooters. Moments later, Carson and Morales get up and begin walking in the same direction.
The suspect turns his attention, screaming at Carson, "The f*** are you looking at? ... Imma kill you right now!"
Carson backs up, repeatedly telling the incensed thug, "Chill, chill."
Despite Carson's attempts to de-escalate the situation and push away his attacker, the thug manages to punch the 6'4" social justice advocate in the face. Carson recoils and retreats, tripping over the bus bench in the process.
Morales pleads with the thug to stop, but her efforts are in vain.
Brandishing a knife, the thug chases Carson and stabs him three times in the chest. After kicking his victim's body on the ground, the thug threatens to stab Morales, electing instead to spit in her face and flee.
Toward the end of the footage, a woman appears, calling out what sounds like "Brian" and telling the aggrieved woman, "I'm so sorry!"
Carson was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny indicated at a press conference Wednesday that Carson's heart had been pierced by the knife in the attack.
Kenny also indicated police had identified the alleged killer but were waiting for "probable cause to make this arrest."
The suspect
Sources told the New York Post that Dowling was arrested Thursday after NYPD officers executed a search warrant at a home on Lafayette Avenue — near Malcom X Boulevard, where Ryan Carson was slain.
A neighbor told the New York Daily News, "[I'm] very surprised, I can't believe it. ... He was the sweetest boy."
A family friend suggested that he couldn't understand what set Dowling off.
The Post reported that Dowling had been issued three summonses last year, including two for disorderly conduct. He was also named in an incident report concerning a July incident where he allegedly smashed up his girlfriend's apartment following a dispute. According to his aunt, he is "mentally disturbed."
Police are considering the possibility that the suspect may have once again been fighting with his girlfriend, this time turning his rage onto an unsuspecting passerby.
"The person that did the stabbing was seen on the corner with a female acting very agitated prior to the stabbing," said Kenny.
Dowling, being questioned at the 81st Precinct and whose charges are pending, reportedly works at a high school in Clinton Hill.
The victim
Carson appears to have been well liked, both at work and in his community.
He moved to New York City from Massachusetts in 2010 to attend the Pratt Institute. He ended up becoming a senior solid waste campaign manager at the New York Public Interest Research Group.
The NYPIRG noted in a statement, "Ryan was a beloved staffer, colleague and friend, and a creative, talented, relentless and upbeat advocate for students and the environment."
Blair Horner, Carson's former boss at the NYPIRG, said, "It's incomprehensible. ... He was so young," reported WABC-TV.
"A life full of promise is snuffed out. And the world is a worse place for it, and we'll miss him dearly," added Horner.
Tammy Marie David, a radical leftist who has lent her voice to "Be Heard!" on WHCR-FM, started a Gofundme for Carson's girlfriend, Claudia Morales, which has already raised over $65,500.
"Immediate needs are to offset the costs of working class people taking time off of work to properly mourn," wrote David. "We hope you may find his thoughts on mutual aid, his works of advocacy, and understand that his radical principles of community care, justice, and dismantling an individualized profit-centered way of life are worth carrying forward in our own communities."
Andy Ngo of the Post Millennial reported that Morales is a BLM activist who has previously denounced the police, noting in a June 1, 2020, social media post, "The police do not protect you. ACAB. BLM. hope you're on the right side of history."
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Suspect arrested after 'barbaric' killing of security guard who was shot from behind, then robbed while body was face-down on sidewalk
Police in Atlanta on Thursday said they arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a security guard who was shot from behind in broad daylight earlier this week and then robbed while his body was face-down on a sidewalk. The killing was caught on surveillance video
Stanley Henderson, 31, has been charged with felony murder and two counts of aggravated assault, Atlanta Police Homicide Commander Ralph Woolfolk told WXIA-TV.
Henderson has 12 prior arrests on his record, police told TheBlaze. Those arrests resulted in charges that include battery and aggravated assault, WXIA reported.
What's the background?
The security guard — 51-year-old Anthony Frazier — was fatally shot after exiting his SUV around 7 p.m. Monday outside the American Wings and Seafood restaurant on Cleveland Avenue, WSB-TV reported.
Video shows the suspected shooter going through the victim's pockets and then walking away.
After the shooter departed the scene, a man who was sitting on a nearby curb walked past Frazier's body, shaking his head. Minutes later, three other people are seen walking up to Frazier's body; at least one of them also appears to go through his pockets. Frazier's wallet, phone, and gun were stolen, WGCL-TV reported.
Here's the surveillance video:
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What led to the suspect's arrest?
Woolfolk told WXIA that surveillance video released to the public was "extremely instrumental" in generating tips that led to Henderson. He said officers, after a foot chase Wednesday, found the suspect in an "urban encampment," where they believe he had been living, the station reported.
Woolfolk called Frazier's killing "barbaric," WXIA noted.
"This is a man, a husband and a father, he showed up to work in a second job to earn some money for his family. He exits his car, and this individual walks up behind him, and he shoots him," Woolfolk added, according to the station. "That video was extremely violent, concerning to us all when we saw it."
He also told WXIA that police are looking for the other individuals who appeared to steal from Frazier after the shooting and said they could face charges such as tampering with evidence and theft by taking.
"If you think we're closing the book on the murder because we got the guy who pulled the trigger, you're absolutely wrong," Woolfolk noted to the station.
(H/T: The Police Tribune)
Watch: Bodycam footage shows shootout that left suspect and 2 Chicago police officers wounded
Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video footage of a police-involved shooting from last month, which began with a suspect opening fire shortly after being approached by a Chicago police officer.
Two officers and the suspect ended up with gunshot wounds in the incident, but all survived.
What are the details?
COPA released several videos related to the incident, but the best view of what happened when the shooting began came from the body camera of the officer the suspect is seen shooting.
That footage shows the officer jumping out of his squad car to approach the suspect, whom other officers had been following on foot and pleading for him to drop his gun, according to an earlier video.
"Show me your hands...get your hands out of your pocket," the officer says upon confronting the male suspect. The officer has his weapon drawn and his arm extended, but did not aim the service weapon at the suspect.
"Dude, stop!" the officer then says. "Get your hands up!"
The suspect finally responds, "What? What?" then immediately pulls out a handgun and shoots the officer.
Both the officer and the suspect can be heard screaming in anguish, and a second officer is seen on the ground after also being struck by gunfire.
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WBBM-TV reported that the incident occurred at around 7:19 a.m. on Sunday, May 16, after officers responded to a report of gunfire and "saw an armed suspect."
The suspect has been identified as Bruce Lua, 45, who was shot in the leg during the incident. He now faces several charges, including two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery against a peace officer, and a felony weapons charge, according to the arrest report.
WGN-TV reported that "police later revealed that one officer was shot in the collarbone and shoulder and another officer was shot in the hand" during the incident.
Both officers and Lua were hospitalized for their injuries, and all have since recovered.
Nine dead, including suspect, in shooting at San Jose rail yard
Nine people including the suspected gunman are dead after a transit worker opened fire on colleagues at a rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday.
Authorities say the lone suspect, Samuel Cassidy, took his own life at the scene.
What are the details?
NBC News reported that calls of shots fired began around 6:30 a.m. at Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authorities facility, and law enforcement rushed to respond.
"When the shots were still being fired, our teams, with San Jose PD, are entering the building while shots were still going off," Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told reporters. "We attempted rescues. We have some very brave officers and deputies."
Sources told ABC News that Cassidy, a VTA employee, had multiple weapons with him in the massacre, and is believed to have taken his own life after murdering eight people. Multiple VTA employees were among the victims, and one survivor is in critical condition.
The Washington Post reported that according to one official, Cassidy "apparently set his home on fire before going to the rail-yard facility and opening fire."
Deputy Russell Davis told reporters that a sheriff's office bomb squad remained at the VTA facility hours after the murders, explaining, "We received information that there are explosive devices that are located inside the building. We're trying to clear out every room, every crevice of that building."
"We're so sorry this event happened," VTA Board of Directors chairperson Glenn Hendricks said during a press conference. "We will do everything we can to help people get through this."
"It's just very difficult for everyone to be able to try to wrap their heads around and understand what has happened," he said, before praising VTA employees.
"These folks were heroes during COVID-19, the buses never stopped running, VTA didn't stop running," Hendricks added. "They just kept at work, and now we're really calling on them to be heroes a second time to survive such a terrible, terrible tragedy."
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House principal deputy press secretary, said during a briefing that the Biden administration "is monitoring the situation, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families."
"We still don't have all the details," Jean-Pierre said, "but what is clear, as the president has said, is that we are suffering from an epidemic of gun violence in this country, both in mass shootings and in the lives that are being taken in daily gun violence that doesn't make national headlines."
Times Square shooting suspect apprehended in Florida
The man suspected of shooting three people, including a 4-year-old little girl, in New York City's Times Square over the weekend has been apprehended by U.S. Marshals in Florida.
What are the details?
Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, was found at a McDonald's parking lot outside of Jacksonville, Fla., where he was found eating lunch inside a vehicle with his girlfriend, WLNY-TV reported. Authorities said Muhammad did not resist arrest.
The arrest ends a four-day manhunt for Muhammad, who fled New York after allegedly opening fire in Times Square on Saturday afternoon during a purported dispute with his own brother. All three people shot in the incident — a 43-year-old New Jersey woman, a 23-year-old Rhode Island, and a 4-year-old girl from Brooklyn — are expected to survive their injuries.
"If you can only imagine," NYPD Chief of Detective James Essig told reporters in a Wednesday media conference. "It's a daytime shooting, Times Square, thousands of hours of video cameras to be viewed, witnesses to be interviewed, the eyes of the world were on them, they were watching. And here we are: Four days later with an apprehension."
Essig added, "Truly a great job by the New York City police detectives."
Law enforcement agencies in several states assisted in the search for the Muhammad, who changed his appearance following the shooting by "shaving off some of his dreadlocks," USA Today reported.
Muhammad and his girlfriend had earlier been spotted at a Walmart in North Carolina, buying dog food for two dogs the pair brought along with them. The girlfriend is considered a person of interest, but she has not been charged and is not in police custody, according to ABC News.
Muhammad's brother told investigators that he was the target of shooting, but the motive is still under investigation. The brothers both purportedly sell CDs illegally as street vendors, and their fight reportedly began over turf in Times Square.
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