A 75-year-old man was stabbed to death in the hallway outside his Queens apartment on Tuesday, cops said.
George Dourdounas’s lifeless body was found just steps from his first-floor apartment on 33rd St. building near 28th Ave. in Astoria around 1:40 p.m., cops said.
A law enforcement source said the victim was slashed repeatedly.
A neighbor said he was sleeping in his first-floor apartment down the hall from where the victim lived when he heard his desperate screams for help.
“I heard somebody saying, ‘Help me. Help me.’ But it was very muted. It blended into my dreams,” the 55-year-old neighbor, who gave his name as Ray, told the Daily News. “Then I heard my neighbor, this lady, was screaming, hysterical, crying.”
Ray said Dourdounas was a retired high school math teacher who recently earned his PhD and was planning a return to academia as a college professor before he was killed.
“He wanted to teach in college because he taught in high school and the kids didn’t care,” said the victim’s neighbor. “He said, ‘I got my PhD, and there’s no age limit for retirement and college teaching, so I can apply for college.’ And that’s what he did.
“George was a very nice person,” Ray added. “He never bothered anybody. And he came home and he got killed.”
There were no arrests.