Suspect Brian Dowling, 18, is arrested in the fatal stabbing of community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson in Brooklyn in an apartment five minutes from where the attack occurred
- Suspect arrested on Thursday for the fatal attack on Monday in Bedford Stuyvesant
- He was filmed repeatedly stabbing Carson in front of his girlfriend
- Suspect previously described as ’emotionally disturbed’ teenager
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The NYPD has arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson in Brooklyn.
Brian Dowling, 18, was arrested Thursday morning at an apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant.
Police were looking for the black Champion sweatshirt he was wearing when they arrived at the apartment and found him.
It is not far from where he was filmed stabbing 32-year-old Carson to death as he waited for the bus with his girlfriend at 3.50am on Monday.
The suspect, believed to be a teenager, was arrested in Brooklyn on Thursday
Detectives arrived at the suspect’s home in Brooklyn on Thursday morning
Dowling was previously described as ’emotionally and mentally disturbed’.
He is said to work at a school in Clinton Hill and is so out of control that his own aunt reported him to the police two months ago after he destroyed his girlfriend’s belongings during an argument.
Carson spearheaded liberal causes such as creating supervised drug injection sites in the city.
His girlfriend, according to now-locked social media profiles, was an avid BLM activist who, among other things, used the police-hating acronym ACAB in some posts.
Their friends say he would view his killer as a “victim of a broken system” and would want his death to be used to continue advocating for social justice.
Ryan Thoresen Carson, 32, was killed at 4 a.m. Monday while waiting for a bus