Man, 37, is stabbed to death after complaining to customer who failed to say ‘thank you’
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A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death after complaining to a fellow customer who didn’t say “thank you” when he held the door open for him at a Brooklyn smoke shop as crime continues to mount in NYC.
The incident happened around 10:20 p.m. on Tuesday after the victim, whose name has not been disclosed, held the door open for a fellow customer who walked into 4th Ave Tobacco Road Corp. in Gowanus.
The victim asked the suspect why he did not say thank you and became angry.
After an argument outside, the victim punched the suspect who was trying to leave, after which he was fatally stabbed in the neck and abdomen.
The incident happened around 10:20 p.m. on Tuesday after the victim, whose name has not been disclosed, held the door open for a fellow customer who walked into 4th Ave Tobacco Road Corp. in Gowanus.
Reports claim the victim taunted the suspect and said ‘Stitch me if you can’ before being knocked down.
He fell back into the entrance of the store, bleeding profusely, and according to store employee Kharef Alsaidi, he shouted, “He stabbed me, he stabbed me.”
The victim was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was sadly pronounced dead.
Speak with ABC7Alsaidi explained how events unfolded: “It was just about not saying ‘thank you’ for opening the door for him.
He said the victim asked, “Why don’t you say, Thank you for opening the door?”
It led to the suspect saying that he did not ask the victim to open the door for him.
The employee said he had tried to de-escalate the problem and get the suspect to dispose of the knife, but it didn’t work.
The victim asked the suspect why he didn’t say thank you and became angry, the New York Post reports. After an argument outside, the victim beat the suspect who was trying to flee and was fatally stabbed in the neck and stomach by him.
The police have not yet caught the suspect, who left on his e-bike. He headed south on Fourth Avenue toward Carroll Street.
Sources said the man was wearing a black sweater, white shirt and jeans and was carrying a black backpack.
The investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
Information can also be submitted to the CrimeStoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or message @NYPDTips on Twitter.
Michael Palacios, 31, pictured, told the NY Post he used the ax to scare people in McDonald’s who hit and jumped at him Friday
This is the latest crime to send shockwaves through the streets of New York after a man launched a frenzy with an ax at a McDonald’s last Friday when three men annoyed him.
Michael Palacios was seen in the footage that produced punches from the men before calmly removing the ax from his backpack, which he then begins to wield in the air, threatening those around him.
The three others he’d been fighting with quickly ran for cover, some hiding in a disabled toilet, while others ran to the back of the restaurant in hopes of escaping.
But the aggressor seems to settle a score and begins to use his ax to destroy furniture causing thousands of dollars in damage.
He is seen throwing the ax down at several tables of the restaurant that have been smashed into small pieces.
Palacios insisted he didn’t start vandalizing the restaurant because the woman turned him down
He also smashes the ax against a glass panel that instantly shatters on impact, before cornering one of his previous attackers who then begs for mercy as he huddles against a wall.
He then knocks one of the men he was fighting out of his chair – while threatening other frightened guests, and at one point yells, “Don’t be afraid of me, be afraid of him!”
After the eruption, Palacios fled on his bicycle but was arrested a short time later by police on nearby Ludlow Street, the driver said. The police were able to track him down in part thanks to the widespread footage of the incident.
Palacios – whom social media collectively referred to as “the ax man” upon seeing the footage – was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, three counts of threat and two counts of criminal gun possession.
The scene from NYC’s Upper West Side where a tourist from Denmark was shot in the back after running away from a mugger
The tourist was detained by the unidentified male shooter, who demanded money and his phone, but the tourist denied him
The victim, originally from Argentina, was transported to St Luke’s Hospital in stable condition
Elsewhere, another violent crime shocked New Yorkers when a tourist from Denmark was shot in the back on the Upper West Side on Sunday morning after refusing to give his cell phone to a mugger.
The man was on his way home from a party when he was stopped at 3:30 a.m. by the gunman on West 103rd Street and West End Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
The unknown male robber demanded money from the man and then his cellphone.
When the Danish-dwelling attempt to reject the gunman from his demands and run away, he was shot in the back.
“He kept walking and the man shot him,” a police source said.
New Yorkers have grown tired of the latest spike in violence and crime on the city’s streets, as well as the widespread looting and physical altercations in many neighborhoods.
The widespread crime problem is not limited to one area, with neighborhoods previously considered safe now teeming with crime.
In Manhattan’s trendy Chelsea neighborhood, children are reportedly exposed to nudity, sexual acts and drug use, while business owners are constantly dealing with break-ins.
Large swaths of New Yorkers have fled the city as crime rates continue to rise.
On September 4, about 11,737 robberies were reported – about 3,318 more compared to the same time last year.
In the meantime, 10,500 burglaries have been reported, which is about 2,600 more than in 2021.
The crime rate is also up 18.2 percent, with large scale theft leading the crime resurgence with over 10,000 reported cases compared to last year.
The city also recorded a 39 percent increase in robberies and a 21 percent increase in major assaults.
There was a mass exodus of officers from the NYPD this year, according to the… New York Postwith 2,465 police officers looking to leave the department – 42 percent more than the 1,731 who left at the same time last year.