{"id":213986,"date":"2026-04-29T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213986\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:02:07","slug":"homeless-man-accused-of-stabbing-man-to-death-outside-brooklyn-bar-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213986\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man accused of stabbing man to death outside Brooklyn bar: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A homeless man is accused of stabbing a man to death<\/a> during a brawl outside a Brooklyn bar on Sunday, police said. <\/p>\n

Darrin Webster, 29, allegedly killed 26-year-old Amare Simmons and slashed a 28-year-old man in front of 1071 Broadway in Bushwick at around 1:45 a.m., according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n

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Police said a brawl erupted outside the bar, Marco\u2019s, when the victims were attacked. It was unclear what sparked the incident.<\/p>\n

Simmons was stabbed in the abdomen, and the 28-year-old man was slashed in the face and hand, cops said. Simmons was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved. <\/p>\n

A knife was recovered at the scene, and two suspects were taken into custody, cops said. <\/p>\n

Webster, who is homeless, was charged with murder, attempted assault, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon, police said Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Randolph Robertson, a 38-year-old Queens resident, was also arrested and charged with assault, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and menacing, police said. <\/p>\n

Their arraignments were pending on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A homeless man is accused of stabbing a man to death during a brawl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-213986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}