{"id":3688,"date":"2025-10-15T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3688\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:57:09","slug":"man-slain-in-brooklyn-stabbing-attack-identified-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3688\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Slain In Brooklyn Stabbing Attack Identified, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 The identity of the man found stabbed to death early Monday morning in Crown Heights has been publicly revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Dantzler, 56, a homeless man, was pronounced dead at the scene after being fatally stabbed. Police say the suspect, a 58-year-old man, walked into a Brooklyn precinct shortly after the attack and confessed, claiming he acted in self-defense when Dantzler entered an apartment on Troy Avenue near Park Place.<\/p>\n<p>The exact relationship between the two remains unclear. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the suspect used a kitchen knife to fatally stab Dantzler before heading to the 77th Precinct station house around 3:15 a.m. to confess.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning, no charges have been announced in the case, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 The identity of the man found stabbed to death early Monday morning in Crown Heights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}