A Good Samaritan who came to the aid of a Bronx murder victim on Monday morning described the harrowing final moments of a young man’s life after he was stabbed to death in broad daylight during an argument.
According to police sources, the incident took place just before 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 5 near the corner of Walton Avenue and East Fordham Road in Fordham.
Officers from the 46th Precinct responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call reporting that a man had been stabbed. Upon arrival, cops discovered an unidentified man, believed to be in his 20s, with a stab wound in the back.
Multiple eyewitnesses told first responders that they had seen two men arguing just before the attack.
Michelle Dawkins, a worker at the nearby ABC Training Center, said she saw the victim come running down the block, where he collapsed outside the entranceway. She rushed to his side.
“He pulled out his hand, and it was full of blood, and then as he went down and he lay on the ground, that’s when I got to see his whole back was full of blood,” Dawkins told amNewYork in an interview. “His clothes and his underwear were showing; they were full of blood. I thought he got stabbed in the butt, but no, it was the back.”
According to police sources, the incident took place just before 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 5 near the corner of Walton Avenue and East Fordham Road in Fordham.Photo by Dean Moses
As the young, fearful man began losing consciousness, Dawkins begged him to try and hang on until paramedics arrived.
“He said: ‘Mami, don’t let me go.’ I said, ‘No, don’t you go on me,’” she said. “So, I kept taking his eyes and lifting them because he kept wanting to go down. I’m like, ‘No, no, don’t go to sleep, don’t go to sleep.’ So, I was applying pressure on the back, and then the ambulance came.”
Video obtained by amNewYork shows the young man shirtless being placed into the back of an ambulance. Dawkins said that it appeared the victim knew his killer.
“They (EMS) started working on him and he was still speaking because they asked him: ‘Do you know who stabbed you?’ and he said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s the last words I got,” Dawkins said.
EMS rushed him to Saint Barnabas Hospital, but he could not be saved and was pronounced dead. Police have not yet released his identity, pending family notification.
Michelle Dawkins, a worker at the nearby ABC Training Center, said she saw the victim come running down the block, where he collapsed outside the entranceway. She rushed to his side.Photo by Dean Moses
Meanwhile, cops are looking for the suspected killer, a man also believed to be in his 20s, who had been in an argument with the victim moments before the killing. The perpetrator was last seen wearing all black and fled the scene northbound on Morris Avenue on foot.
No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding the homicide can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.