Ryan Carson of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the 32 year old known as a big-hearted activist and talented poet, was fatally man fatally stabbed by an unhinged suspect on Monday.
He was stabbed multiple times in the chest by this stranger just before 4 AM, while waiting with his girlfriend at the B38 bus stop at Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard – after the pair left a wedding, cops and sources said.
Ryan once talked a mugger down from trying to rob him, friends report.
The suspect – who had not been caught by Monday afternoon – was acting erratically and knocking over scooters before he seethed, „What are you looking at?” and senselessly attacked Carson, sources said.
Carson’s girlfriend held her mortally wounded partner in her arms before he was rushed to Kings County Hospital Center, where he could not be saved, according to cops and sources.
Carson – who came to New York from the Boston area in 2010 to attend Pratt Institute – was an activist focused on sustainability and environmental policies.
Known for his big-heartedness, Carson once walked 500 miles across New York „to raise awareness to pass legislation for the institution of the first overdose prevention facility in the state”, friend and former classmate Alex Harristhal, 29, said.
Carson was also a published poet. One of his poems, „Anxiety”, is about fears over his own death – namely about the „inconvenience” his passing would cause others.
„That it could come while someone waits for me, that I couldn’t call to let them know I was held up”, he wrote in the poem.
