Ryan Thoresen Carson, a public policy professional, died from several stab wounds in front of his girlfriend in an apparent random attack early yesterday morning at a bus stop in Brooklyn (NYC).
The victim I was going to turn 32 this week. She was waiting at a bus stop when they were approached by an apparently mentally ill man who began knocking over parked scooters and asked Carson what he was looking at before repeatedly plunging a knife into his chest.
“It’s a big loss for the city.”
The crime happened at the B46 bus stop on Malcolm X Blvd. near Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant after the couple took the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) back from a wedding around 3:50 a.m. Monday, according to police.
Paramedics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, but were unable to save him. He was about a mile from his apartment when he was stabbed. The attack fled and has not been stopped.
Blair Horner, Carson’s boss at the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), reacted by saying: “It is incredibly tragic: a life full of promise fades away.”and the world is a worse place for it and we will miss him very much,” he said, quoted by ABCNews.
In 2021, outside of his work at NYPIRG, Carson walked 350 miles across New York State to lobby then-Governor Andrew Cuomo to legalize safe drug injection sites, as part of its “No OD NY” campaign against overdoses, commented DailyNews.
More than 100 people gathered at a vigil last night at Herbert Von King Park, near Carson’s home, where friends and family surrounded a large oak tree and hugged each other as they remembered the slain man. “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that “It’s a big loss for the city.” said Ari Farrell, a friend of Carson’s.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
A recent NYPD report warned that Fatal stabbings are up 29% this year in the city compared to before the pandemic (2019). Attacks with knives have become more frequent in various scenarios: streets, buildings, homes, buses, Metro, parties, schools and even commercial establishments and ATM areas.
