18-year-old suspect charged with murder in deadly random stabbing of beloved NYC activist: sources
The 18-year-old man suspected in the grisly random stabbing death of a beloved Brooklyn social justice activist was arrested and charged Thursday as authorities recovered a knife and the sweatshirt the perp is believed to have worn during the early-morning slaying, cops said.The person of interest, identified as Brian Dowling, was pictured with tears running down his face as officers escorted him from the 81st Precinct Thursday afternoon.
The teen – who had handcuffs around his wrists and ankles – was still wearing the same white t-shirt and stripped shorts he had a few hours earlier, when the was arrested while cops executed a search warrant at a home on Lafayette Avenue near Malcolm X Boulevard — just down the block from where Ryan Carson, 32, was knifed to death early Monday as his girlfriend watched.
Dowling is charged with second-degree murder and criminal weapons possession, police confirmed.
Dowling did not make any statements to cops after his arrest, and has already enlisted a lawyer, sources said.
Cops were searching for clothing allegedly worn by the suspect during the caught-on-camera attack — and found both Dowling and his dark Champion sweatshirt, seen in the video of the attack, inside the apartment, the sources said.
Cops also found a knife in the home, and will be working to determine if it was the murder weapon, sources said.
The teen was escorted from the apartment into a squad car by a huddle of officers a video from CBS News showed.
More than a dozen officers descended on the property during the arrest and search, the outlet said.
“Assailant has been caught,” Carson's father, Ken Carson, wrote on Facebook at 11:30 Thursday morning.
“More details will follow,” he added in a follow-up comment.
“I'm on the road…escorting Ryan Home to Massachusetts right now. I wasn't leaving NYC without him.”
Friday, Oct. 6 would have been Carson's 32nd birthday, records indicated.
Brian Dowling charged with murder in deadly stabbing of NYC activist Ryan Carson, sources say r/nyc
The CBS article actually censored the stabbers face
Suspect Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Advocate in Brooklyn - NY Times r/brooklyn
THEY WANT HIM LOCKED UP
You'll be happy to know that he has been charged with depraved indifference murder aka murder in the 2nd degree, which is a Class A-I felony. A conviction carries an automatic life sentence.
I am happy to know that. Thank you.
Where are all the jail abolitionists now?
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i bet ryan carson used the n-slur
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Yeah what did he walk up and say to the 64 month old child to make him lash out? Racist got his comeuppance
E : I'm bad at math okay. Stop punching down
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violence comes from a place of oppression, as far as im concerned that yakubian assaulted this poor young mans knife with his neck
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216 months old. He was just a fricking kid his brain didn't even fully develop
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lol not good at math sorry
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Nah it was funny as frick I was cracking up
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Try 216 month old child. Still basically an infant mentally though.
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It's always the people you least expect. Sad day for justice.
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The defense needs to make this argument, and immediately.
Then it needs to ask the girlfriend what's more likely: that her White Savior ubermensch didn't use such a word (one that he had, in all likelihood, at some point in his life thought aloud); or that Black Bodies would lie about lived experiences.
Her eyes will spin, mouth foam: the defendant will walk.
In equal liklihood, she's already covering up her hammers and sickles with 1488s and swastikas.
Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!
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You know this isn't true lol.
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Even if he didn't say it out loud, the implication was certainly there. He went to a marginalized neighborhood and took up space that black bodies need to exist. His presence was kind of genocidal when you really think about it.
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Not to mention he was dressed like a slave owner.
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This is gonna be a good way to troll reddit threads about the incident. Just justify his killing with that you can clearly hear him say the N word in the video.
Not like video evidence ever stopped lefties, lol.
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