Man fatally stabbed during Brooklyn fight
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A Brooklyn man was fatally stabbed early Saturday following fight in Crown Heights, police said.
Cops responding to a call of an assault in progress at 1:30 a.m. in found the victim Kerwin Cox, 35, sprawled out on the ground outside a Soul Food restaurant on Franklin Ave. near Lincoln Place.
Cox had been stabbed in the chest, police said.
Neighbors heard people arguing on the street before the sound of police sirens pierced the night.
“I heard a woman arguing,” said a 78-year-old neighbor, who would only identify herself as Dee. “There were people running away, and then running back to where he was stabbed.”
“It’s just senseless,” Dee said, pointing at the blood on the sidewalk. “A 35-year-old guy. You’re still young.”
Other neighbors shrugged off the screams.
“There’s always some fights, shouting,” said a 29-year-old woman, who would only identify herself as Tanya. “I heard a scream but I shut my windows.”
EMS rushed Cox to Interfaith Medical Center, where he died.
His attacker ran off, no arrests have been made. A motive for the crime was not released.
Cox lived in the Gowanus Houses on Baltic St. in Boreum Hill, police said.
Cops on Saturday were searching the area looking for evidence and surveillance video that could help lead them to a suspect.
