Man fatally stabbed in Brooklyn apartment, police take person into custody

A man was fatally stabbed in a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday after paying a visit to a man who was on house arrest, possibly looking for trouble, police sources said.

The victim, Guersy Jacques, 24, was knifed in the neck inside a second-floor apartment Hawthorne St. near Flatbush Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens about 12 p.m., cop sources said.

He then staggered out of the building, bleeding profusely, before collapsing by a metal gate. Cops took a person of interest into custody for questioning at the scene.

Teshurah Yisrael, 27, said she saw three men go into the apartment right before the stabbing, then heard a cry for help as the victim staggered out.

“The boy was just sitting at the gate. Two paramedics were trying to hold his neck together. His once-white shirt was all covered in blood,” she said. “The blood was far and wide. It was on my car.”

The trail of blood led from a pool by the elevator in the building lobby, then out to a courtyard and the metal fence.

“He was not much longer for this world. The paramedics did their best for him,” she said. “There was so much blood in the lobby and out on the sidewalk.”

Medics took him to Kings County Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

Yisrael said she saw a man led out of the building by police.

“He had an ankle bracelet on him,” she said. “They walked him out and he said it was self defense.”

Charges in the case were pending Wednesday evening.