A person was stabbed to loss of life outdoors of Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Middle after he was attacked by a bunch of teenagers, police and sources stated.
Michael Hernandez was strolling close to Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues when he was apparently set upon by 4 individuals, stabbed as soon as within the chest and a number of instances within the again round 9 p.m. Friday, police and sources stated.
Hernandez, 27, capable of stroll away however then collapsed close by at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, the sources stated.
He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, the place he later died.
A 55-year-old who lives in an residence that overlooks the scene stated he heard screaming about 9 p.m. however thought it was youngsters he had heard carrying on just a few hours earlier.
“Like around 9 at night, I heard some noise, screaming,” engineer Bjorn Breivik stated.
“I thought it was the youths having fun.”
About 15 or 20 minutes later, he heard the cops, the Norway native stated.
“There were a lot of cops, six or seven cars, about 25 cops.” he stated.
“I saw a puddle that I think was blood. … It was (in) the middle of the street.”
“It’s really terrible,” he stated.
“He is a human and someone does that with purpose.”
Frode Thorsen, 60, who can be an engineer from Norway, was strolling his canine, Taks, within the space and was visibly shaken when he discovered in regards to the homicide.
“Oh Jesus!” stated Thorsen.
“It’s not good that someone was killed.”
Thorsen typically walks his canine as late as 11 p.m., however he’s not fearful, he stated.
“I have a dog to watch over me,” he stated.
“He’ll let me know if someone is approaching me.”
Retired professor Linda Farhood-Karasavva, 76, who travels to Brooklyn from Manhattan usually was on her method to see a present and referred to as the killing “disgusting.”
“It’s happening too much,” she stated. “I’m a mom……I can’t think about dropping your youngster that means, to get murdered?
To her, it looks as if “the whole city is falling apart,” she stated.
“I love this city,” she stated. “I was born here and I hate to see it go down like this. I’ve lived all over the world, I’ve traveled everywhere but I am always happy to come home — but not to this.”
