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.

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.”



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.



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.



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.



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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[Kiwisee]

why is it predominantly women with this

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And never forget this:

Stuff like this is why I’m convinced that God is real and he has a sense of humor

 

[Chickenpolar]

I was curious how often the bus runs.

The bus stop they were sitting at was for the B46, which seems to run every 40-60 minutes at night It's been a long time since I've read a bus timetable so I could be fucking that up.

Let's see what Dr. Wikipedia has to say about the B46

The B46 was also notorious for high incidence of crime and fare evasion; in 2014, the magazine The New Yorker declared the route "the most dangerous bus route in the city", following several crimes such as the killing of a B46 bus driver in 2008.[11]

In 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) ranked the B46 route as the "most dangerous and crime-ridden bus route" in terms of fare evasion and on-bus assaults; in the previous year, there were 41 incidents in which drivers of B46 buses were assaulted or harassed.[11]

 

[Would]

I'm being downvooooted!!!!

I hope teenage nigger kills them all.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Hands down they were looking to buy drugs and the journo deliberately left it out and replaced it with "waiting for the bus".

I always sit on a bench " waiting for a bus" facing away from the road so I can't see the bus coming.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Nobody gives enough of a fuck about this guy to do that, not his girlfriend, not his friends, not his "activist" buddies. Sure he seemed like a twat based on his Twitter posts but still how does this happen to a person?

You are dealing with a group of narcissistic, sociopathic spiteful mutants here. They have the same exact mindset as hardcore criminals in the mafia. Just like in the mafia, you are more likely to get whacked by someone you thought was your friend than a thug from a rival gang and after you get clipped and after the funeral those same "friends" will completely forget about you.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

Let's not forget the guy whose wife was strangled to death by an illegal beaner who staged her death to look like a suicide, and then the husband went full Trump deranged.





While he was writing an article titled "My Wife's Killer Was Not An Illegal Immigrant.'" he was also suing the construction company who hired the illegal beaner because, the lawsuit argued, he shouldn't have been hired, because he was an... wait for it...



Illegal immigrant.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

The buses don't run that late. I saw someone speculate that they were sitting on a bus stop bench at 3am in Brooklyn after a wedding, yeah they were probably breaking up. That's kinda the body language goung on in that video.

Maybe she really was posting to Tinder as he was bleeding out.

I always sit on a bench " waiting for a bus" facing away from the road so I can't see the bus coming.

Did Ryan approach our underprivileged urban youth to score some drugs?

 

[clipartfan92]

The bus stop they were sitting at

I don't have the article to reference, but I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that they were walking home. I don't think a bus comes into play, other than them taking a break from walking. Not very many places to sit down and rest on a city street like that other than a curb or someone's steps if it's a residential area.

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

Let's not forget the guy whose wife was strangled to death by an illegal beaner who staged her death to look like a suicide, and then the husband went full Trump deranged.

LMAO I remember this, Law & Order did an episode based on the case, but they of course made the illegal an extremely sympathetic poor victim who attacked the actress out of fear that she'd get him deported (instead of irl where he lay in wait to rob her), the lawyers feel bad for him and the REAL killer ends up being his white employer who gets lambasted for profiting off of illegal labor. I guess it's fitting that her widower ended up having TDS in hindsight.

If this gains enough traction, maybe we'll get an adaptation of this case, where the real villain was gentrification and a white bus driver too busy being racist to get to the scheduled stop on time.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

This is why I hate leftists, their altruism and solidarity is just a mask used to achieve their political goals, they don't actually hate the rich, they don't hate luxury or squandering money since they engage in it all the time in whatever measure they can, even if it is at a micro level (such as spending hundreds of dollars a month on dumb shit), the only reason these people don't have Lamborghinis is because they can't afford it, hell they won't stop buying Starbucks and alcohol to donate $100 a month towards the homeless because they don't actually give a shit about them.

A good example of fake leftist altruism was #stopasianhate. During 2021 there was a spike in random violent attacks on Asian people and leftists used it as a way to push a narrative it was white MAGA Trump supporters doing it. They spun it into what basically was "MAGA voters are white supremacists and violent" well when the truth started to leak out it was a certain group of melantined individuals causing the attacks they completely memory holed the whole thing. They never gave a fuck about the very real attacks on elderly and women Asians. It was entirely political. This is why I hate them. They stand for nothing but gaining power. The Asians who were being assaulted mean nothing to them.

 

[Super Guido]

I just can't get how fundamentally unloved this dude was.

A few years ago this homeless schizo that had been hanging around a dive bar I'm a regular at for literally longer than I've been alive got hit by a car and since he had nobody that bar patrons all took up a collection and paid to bury him and get him a nice headstone.

Nobody gives enough of a fuck about this guy to do that, not his girlfriend, not his friends, not his "activist" buddies. Sure he seemed like a twat based on his Twitter posts but still how does this happen to a person?

They're all a bunch of uptight assholes waiting for one of their "friends" to fuck up so they can blast them on social media, so their relationships are entirely limited to situational allyship where everyone is ready to stab someone in the back at a moment's notice.

The black dude basically did the progressives' job for them, and anyone with more than half a braincell would realize no one in that group has any real sense of brotherhood.

A good example of fake leftist altruism was #stopasianhate. During 2021 there was a spike in random violent attacks on Asian people and leftists used it as a way to push a narrative it was white MAGA Trump supporters doing it. They spun it into what basically was "MAGA voters are white supremacists and violent" well when the truth started to leak out it was a certain group of melantined individuals causing the attacks they completely memory holed the whole thing. They never gave a fuck about the very real attacks on elderly and women Asians. It was entirely political. This is why I hate them. They stand for nothing but gaining power. The Asians who were being assaulted mean nothing to them.

That sort of stuff makes me so mad. They treat their pet groups as bargaining chips, which in my opinion, no one who actually gives a shit about them would do. To these "advocates", they're not people - they're just assets to be used.

Gee, I wonder where I've seen that kind of mindset before? It sounds a lot like the people they claim to oppose!

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Let's not forget the guy whose wife was strangled to death by an illegal beaner who staged her death to look like a suicide, and then the husband went full Trump deranged.

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While he was writing an article titled "My Wife's Killer Was Not An Illegal Immigrant.'" he was also suing the construction company who hired the illegal beaner because, the lawsuit argued, he shouldn't have been hired, because he was an... wait for it...

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Illegal immigrant.

These people simp for their families murders cause there is a govt agency (community realtions service) that show up and basically guilts / bribes / threatens (I assume the mostly use guilt, but the rest wouldn't surprise me) you to say the murder was a good boy who dindu nuffin'.

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

I never feel bad when white people like this idiot gets murdered. I see these types in my neighborhood every day; they think because they're gentrifying it, it's safe to walk around completely oblivious to their surroundings, engaging with their fellow "community members." I saw a bitch just the other day approach a homeless nigger, who was raving like a lunatic in front of Subway, to offer him a sandwich. He screamed in her face and threw garbage at her. Luckily for her, it didn't escalate beyond that and she was able to get away.

Yeah, white saviors progressives have swallowed the whole narrative about how America is a police state that targets black people because of WHITE SUPREMACY, and the whole concept of "white privilege", hook, line, and sinker. So they have a tendency to dismiss the thought that one of their black fellow citizens, especially one "experiencing homelessness", could actually be a danger, like the woman in front of Subway you saw. Seems like she might have learned a valuable life lesson without getting hurt, thankfully.

I also think a lot of them have embraced the idea that "racism = bigotry + societal power", and therefore blacks can't be racist against whites, to such an extent that they subconsciously act as though their "white privilege" is actually a literal forcefield that keeps black people from physically harming them. I'm sure they'd say they don't literally believe that if you asked them, but the end results are basically the same.

You could still be "anti-racist", whatever that means, while still being aware of potential risks to safety, but people like the woman you saw and this guy who got stabbed have more or less smothered their internal warning voices in the name of being "allies".

I get why people are anti-racist... I think they're retarded for letting their guards down around melaninated people, but I understand not wanting to look like a bigot. But there's absolutely no excuse for walking around without a weapon, especially at night in a nigger infested shithole.

Unfortunately, people like this would probably hesitate to use a weapon on a black person, especially a black teenager (just like Trayvon Martin!), because they wouldn't want to become yet another white man killing a poor defenseless black man. Even if NYC permitted concealed carry and this guy had a gun, he'd have had to draw and fire almost immediately, without any hestitation, in order to survive given how fast the actual stabbing played out, and there's no way his worldview would let him do that. He'd hesitate for just a second, and that'd be enough.

 

[The Connected Nose]

I agree. You can see the moment his heart literally breaks.

When the blade ruptures it?

 

[Standardized Profile]

When the blade ruptures it?

Basically this, but with Karl and a knife:

 

[One87five0]

Unfortunately, people like this would probably hesitate to use a weapon on a black person

No doubt. Which is fucking insane to me because I wouldn't hesitate to neutralize a threat to my safety no matter what color that threat is; if someone poses a risk to my life or property, that's the one situation where I'm completely colorblind. Honky, nigger, chink, beaner... it doesn't matter to me. These stupid fucks are so brainwashed that they're incapable of seeing deranged individuals as a threat if the individual is a POC. This retarded faggot and his ugly girlfriend approached the threat, and he decided to engage with it. If Brian had been a white guy, this probably would have ended differently. Ryan would have likely thrown some punches instead of pushing him away like a limp wristed sissy, or crossed the street to avoid a potential confrontation altogether.

 

[Reepicheep]

The girlfriend of slain New York City activist Ryan Carson was unable to pick her boyfriend’s suspected killer from a photo lineup — and that could potentially hurt the case, according to legal experts.

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Carson’s partner, who was with him the night he was fatally stabbed this month, was not able to pick suspect Brian Dowling, 18, from a photo array and instead picked a different person, Brooklyn prosecutors said during Dowling’s arraignment Thursday.

The girlfriend remains traumatized by the slaying and has trouble remembering basic details about the incident, a police official told ABC 7 Friday.

Two witnesses positively identified Dowling as Carson’s killer from a photo lineup and said he was the person seen stabbing the activist in a video of the senseless attack, prosecutors did note.

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Former Manhattan prosecutor turned defense lawyer Mark Bederow told the Messenger it was “potentially devastating and crippling” that the girlfriend could not identify Dowling.

But Bederow, who is not involved in the case, also said that it “doesn’t by any means mean that it’s over.”

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Carson’s partner, who was with him the night he was fatally stabbed this month, was not able to pick suspect Brian Dowling, 18, from a photo array and instead picked a different person.
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“It’s really too early to tell,” he told the outlet, pointing out other evidence could make up for that photo array miss.

“If they found a weapon at this guy’s apartment and it has the DNA of the victim, that’s compelling in the other direction,” he said.

Ex-Brooklyn prosecutor Julie Rendelman told the Messenger the girlfriend’s trouble identifying Dowling is something the defense could potentially raise as reasonable doubt.

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But she also pointed out “the stabbing is caught on video and the defendant’s face is fairly clear.”

“It will likely be argued by the prosecution that the witness’ trauma in watching her boyfriend be stabbed before her eyes impacted her ability to identify the defendant,” the now-defense lawyer said.

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Two witnesses positively identified Dowling as Carson’s killer from a photo lineup and said he was the person seen stabbing the activist in a video of the senseless attack
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Carson and his girlfriend were heading home from a wedding on Long Island when the stabbing happened, police said.

The assailant seemed to target Carson at random, forcing the beloved community advocate to stand between the stranger and his girlfriend, according to surveillance footage obtained by The Post showed.

The unhinged man can be heard yelling “I’ll kill you!” before the two scuffle, with Carson eventually tumbling over the bus stop bench while the attacker pulls out a knife and stabs him three times, according to cops and the video.


Carson and his girlfriend were heading home from a wedding on Long Island when the stabbing happened, police said.
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Kenneth Jamal Montgomery, Dowling’s defense lawyer, agreed the photo array issue could help his client, but said to the Messenger “I am waiting to review the discovery and all of its context.”

Dowling is facing a second-degree murder charge.

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[Super Guido]

The assailant seemed to target Carson at random, forcing the beloved community advocate to stand between the stranger and his girlfriend, according to surveillance footage obtained by The Post showed.

Random? Carson approached the dude first. It's not like the dude ran up to him outta nowhere and stabbed him in the heart.

 

[Reepicheep]

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Random? Carson approached the dude first. It's not like the dude ran up to him outta nowhere and stabbed him in the heart.

Yeah it wasn't random. He walked up to and provoked the young Scholar like a fucking idiot. The kid got spooked thinking he was going to fight him and stabbed him to death.