Advocate stabbed to death by unhinged stranger while waiting for Brooklyn bus with girlfriend - Ryan Carson was stabbed to death near a bus stop at Malcolm X Blvd. and Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn early Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

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By HARRY PARKER, ROCCO PARASCANDOLA | rparascandola@nydailynews.com and COLIN MIXSON | cmixsonpost@gmail.com | New York Article Archive

An advocate with a blossoming career influencing public policy was stabbed to death by an unhinged stranger while waiting for a Brooklyn bus early Monday on the way home from a wedding with his girlfriend, police sources said.

Ryan Carson worked as the senior solid waste campaign director at the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group. In 2021, separate from his NYPIRG work, he walked 350 miles across New York State to pressure then-governor Andrew Cuomo into legalizing safe drug injection sites throughout New York.

“One of the rising stars in our organization,” said a shaken Blair Horner, executive director of NYPIRG. “Wonderful person, hard-working, loud boisterous laugh. Everybody loved him.”

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Carson, 32, spearheaded the 2021 “No OD NY” campaign. The initiative saw Carson and supporters walk from City Hall in Manhattan to Buffalo, with stops in Albany and other cities. He raised more than $20,000 for the campaign through a successful GoFundMe.

“I don’t think it’s at all an exaggeration to say that it’s a big loss for the city,” Ari Farrell, a friend of the victim, said of Carson’s slaying. “Anybody in his personal life will tell you he’s one of the best, the most moral, they’ve ever met.”

Carson cowrote a 2021 Daily News op-ed “New York falters on fentanyl and the opioid crisis,” which accused Cuomo of touting his handling of the COVID epidemic while ignoring the spread of fentanyl throughout the state.

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He was waiting with his girlfriend at the B46 bus stop on Malcolm X Blvd. near Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant after taking the Long Island Rail back from a wedding when a belligerent stranger started knocking over scooters parked nearby about 3:50 a.m., cops said.

“What are you looking at?” the man snarled at the startled couple before stabbing Carson twice in the chest, according to cops.

Medics rushed Carson to Kings County Hospital but he couldn’t be saved. He was about a mile from his apartment when he was stabbed.

His killer ran off and is on the loose.

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Carson was set to turn 32 on Friday and friends were planning a birthday bash.

“There’s a big party on Saturday,” said Bucky Illingworth, 31, Carson’s roommate. “It was gonna be here and then we were gonna go for a hike in a week or two.”

Illingworth described Carson, who was 6-foot-4, as “the friendliest giant ever.”

“Always down to meet new friends, cook, always had a beer for you,” Illingworth added.

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Following the fentanyl-related overdose death of a 1-year-old boy at a Bronx day care last month, NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan called the synthetic opioid the most dangerous threat to New Yorkers’ health since COVID.

“I’m passionate about safe injection facilities because I’ve seen family members become addicted to opioids prescribed for pain caused by their occupations,” Carson wrote in the 2021 GoFundMe. “I’ve lost friends and family to the opioid epidemic, including my best friend, who died of a heroin overdose in 2016.”

On Point NYC would later open the first safe injection sites in the country in Washington Heights and East Harlem with the city’s blessing in November 2021. Safe injection sites remain illegal on the state and federal levels.

Carson enjoyed sports and attending concerts with friends.

“He was a huge basketball fan, Celtics fan, Red Sox fan,” Carson’s roommate said. “He loved music. We went to shows together all the time.”


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Holy shit I lived in East New York for a summer while I was between apartments and Bed-Stuy was such a shithole I never stepped foot in it, and I know Brooklyn really well.

By the way no one in East New York bothered me, and this is a place where I saw some pretty bad shit from my window, which incidentally had a small bullet hole in it when I came home one night. This guy was an imbecile as I'm sure there were a bunch of livery cabs at the LRR stop but he had to show that tatted up whore how tolerant he was.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Don't forget those two women who decided to take trip to a Morocco or something and walk around to prove it was "safe" and ended up getting raped and beheaded.
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Don't forget pioneer in the field, Amanda Kijera, excerpted from her piece We Are Not Your Weapons–We Are Women (Archive), underlining my own for emphasis.
Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.

It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.
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Grub said:
What happened between 'crazy dude being nearby tipping scooters' and 'crazy dude being in front of soyboy close enough to stab him in the chest'?
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Scooters in Brooklyn would belong to fellow travelers so he was compelled to do something. I can hear the soy-filled Hey, you can't do that! from 2000 miles away.

The only way this gets funnier if he got in a what are you gonna do, stab me?
 
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Police Hunt Suspect in Social Justice Advocate’s Fatal Stabbing​

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Updated Oct. 03, 2023 11:16AM EDT Published Oct. 03, 2023 9:55AM EDT

Police in New York are searching for the man who brutally stabbed a beloved community activist to death in Brooklyn early Monday.
Ryan Carson, 32, was standing at a bus stop with his girlfriend when they were approached by a man who asked Carson what he was looking at, reports say. The man then repeatedly stabbed him in the chest. Carson was later pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/philadelphia-journalist-josh-kruger-shot-to-death-inside-his-own-home
The shocking and apparently unprovoked attack has led to an outpouring of grief from friends and colleagues who remembered Carson as a tireless social justice advocate who dedicated himself to making the world a better place.
For the last decade, he worked as a campaign manager with the New York Public Interest Research Group, most recently focusing on recycling. He had also campaigned to spread awareness about the opioid crisis and lobbied for safe injection sites in 2021 by walking from New York City to Albany, raising more than $20,000 in an accompanying GoFundMe campaign.

“I was absolutely in disbelief,” New York Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, who knew Carson prior to her political career, told CBS New York. She added that Carson had recently been sending out reminders for his upcoming birthday, and she said he was someone she could turn to for support.
“If you wanted to talk, he was absolutely always ready to talk, always there for you,” Gallagher said. “It’s hard when the person that you go to to talk about grief is the one who died.”
No arrests have been made in connection with Carson’s death. Sources told CBS that police don’t even have a physical description of the suspect but that the man had been acting irrationally before the attack.
“It’s incredibly tragic,” Blair Horner, Carson’s boss at the New York Public Interest Research Group, told ABC 7 NY. “A life full of promise is snuffed out—and the world is a worse place for it and we’ll miss him dearly.”
On Monday night, more than 100 people gathered for a candlelight vigil at the Herbert Von King Park across the street from Carson’s home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Friends and associates also posted online tributes to Carson and his inspirational work.
“I’m horrified to learn of the brutal murder of advocate Ryan Carson in Brooklyn today,” New York City Council Member Chi Ossé posted on X, formerly Twitter. “This tireless defender of his neighbors was stolen from us. Committed to ending this senseless violence, my heart is with his family.”
Ossé’s fellow council member Sandy Nurse similarly wrote that she and her team were “devastated” to hear of Carson’s death. “Ryan was a dedicated environmental advocate who worked tirelessly to protect our communities and ecosystems from the climate crisis,” Nurse wrote.

The New York Communities for Change community organization called Carson a “wonderful advocate and ally” who was “taken too soon.” The City University of New York Rising Alliance described him as “a champion of the working class, a dedicated advocate, and a beloved friend & mentor to so many of us.”
“He formally served as a rep in our coalition and worked so hard to advance equity & justice in our state,” the coalition of labor, student, and community organizations added in its tribute. “We celebrate the life of Ryan and will miss him dearly.”
 
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