Daryl Dawkins, a Pennsylvania resident who was stabbed to death in a bar in Brooklyn, was in New York visiting his pregnant girlfriend.
Clay Ann Dawkins (58) told Daily News that his 37-year-old son was a devoted father, who In addition to the unborn baby, she left three more orphans.: a 9-year-old boy and two girls, 5 and 3.
The man was found stabbed in the chest outside the “Catch 22” bar on Third Ave. near 73rd St. in Bay Ridge around 2:50 a.m. Sunday, according to police. He was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but he could not be saved. The motive for the crime is unclear and no one has been arrested.
Dawkins He lived in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Brooklyn, where he played high school football. Fort Hamilton. He was traveling back and forth from Pennsylvania and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to be with his pregnant girlfriend, his mother said.
The woman said her son had legal problems in the pastbut he made an effort to change his life when he became a father and worked for the Federal Express parcel company and had an interest in the world of finance.
“He said, ‘Mom, I have to make changes in my life now that I am a father,’” she recalled. She “she was reading books and attending seminars on how to apply for certain loans.” “They just took his life away from him and he didn’t even get a chance to prove himself,” Clay Ann Dawkins said before crying.
A neighbor who lives near “Catch 22” said she hears shouts “all the time” coming from the establishment where the fatal stabbing of Dawkins occurred. “This is getting out of control in this bar… “A lot of violence, a lot of problems.”
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 page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, in February a Mexican was stabbed to death in a group fight in a bar in The Bronx (NYC). That same weekend, a 31-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a bar in New Jersey and five Hispanics were identified as suspects.
In New York City Stabbings and cuts are common. There were 4,493 cases in 2023 until early December, an increase of 6% compared to the same period in 2022. In parallel arrests for knife crimes increased almost 30%.
A previous NYPD report warned last August that fatal stabbings had risen 29% that 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.
2024-04-10 04:54:16
#Orphaned #birth #father #stabbed #York #bar #left #girlfriend #pregnant #Diario
