An ex-con with 15 prior arrests was busted for randomly stabbing a young person within the neck close to Metropolis Corridor then flashing a menacing smile on the sufferer, cops mentioned Thursday.
Smirking maniac Marvin Dupree, 41, allegedly walked up behind Brooklyn Faculty scholar Alan Ryvkin and knifed him within the neck at round 11:30 a.m because the 19-year-old waited outdoors a Centre Avenue constructing to dispute a vehicular summons, in accordance with authorities.
Cops caught up with the alleged grinning slasher in Harlem hours after the assault and charged him with felony assault, authorities mentioned.
Ryvkin mentioned he was talking with a girl simply outdoors the constructing at 1 Centre St. when the stranger quietly walked behind him and knifed him.
“When he walked away, the dude checked out me and smiled with the knife in his hand,” Ryvkin solely advised The Put up over the cellphone Wednesday.
“I didn’t know who it’s. I don’t know what it’s. I acquired stabbed and I sit on the bottom and begin bleeding out.”
Sam Townsell, 24, a bartender on the out of doors Jury Obligation bar, watched as a bloodied, apparently shell-shocked Ryvkin was loaded into an ambulance.
She mentioned she was shocked because the late-morning violence unfolded simply steps from NYPD headquarters.
“It’s scary – there’s a police division proper there,” Townsell mentioned.
“You wouldn’t assume acts of violence like this could occur in an space like this, the place there are cops in all places. There’s not anyplace round right here that you simply wouldn’t see a cop, so it’s kinda scary.”
Medics rushed Ryvkin to Bellevue Hospital, the place medical doctors handled him for a stab wound between his decrease neck and higher again.
“It’s horrible,” the lifelong New Yorker mentioned. “It seems like New York will not be the place to be. It’s very unsafe.”
In the meantime, Dupree, too, was taken to Bellevue following his arrest for unknown causes, cops mentioned.
Dupree’s rap sheet contains busts for assault, aggravated harassment, felony possession of a managed substance, menacing and resisting arrest, cops mentioned.
His most up-to-date bust was in July for menacing in Harlem, however that case has since been sealed, police mentioned.
His final assault was in June 2012, additionally in Harlem, however that case has additionally been sealed, in accordance with authorities.
He has a previous conviction for felony sale of a managed substance and served simply over 4 years in state jail earlier than he was paroled in November 2019, data present.
He beforehand served about six years for promoting medicine earlier than being paroled in October 2013, and spent lower than a 12 months in lockup for drug possession till he was paroled in July of 2006, in accordance with the data.
