An employee at a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally murdered outside the facility Thursday night, police said.
The horrific incident occurred at the Days Inn Hotel on East New York Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood, which was converted by the city into a shelter.
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Immigrants arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in Manhattan, New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
The employee, 35, who is still anonymous, was attacked around 6:20 p.m. and then ran into the building for help. He had been stabbed multiple times in the neck and abdomen and was bleeding profusely in the lobby when medics arrived and was taken to Brookdale Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Team (Robert Nickelsburg/Getty Images)
Police are searching for a male suspect wearing black clothing and a baseball cap and ski mask.
There is currently no information on what led to this horrific attack, but the area, which has several hotels converted into homeless housing, has dealt with a significant number of violent crimes in the past.
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“We've turned all the hotels around here into shelters during the coronavirus outbreak, and there are four or five more around here. There have been stabbings,” one neighbor said in a comment to the New York Post. It's a lot, and it's often difficult.”
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New York City is plagued by violent crime on its streets and on public transportation, a problem exacerbated by the surge in undocumented immigrants entering the country without shelter. Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly expressed frustration with the federal government, claiming the city lacks the resources to care for them.
An estimated 220,000 immigrants have entered New York City since April 2022, with more than 58,000 currently being cared for by New York City taxpayers, according to a City Hall report.
