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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[The Last Stand]

Man this guy and Kruger? The hits just keep coming for people seeing the fruit of their stupid policy firsthand.

They'll just keep pushing the same policies that will endanger themselves and the general public in the name of social justice. There's no getting out of it now without some serious reform.

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

Edit--I googled "Shoshanna Shapiro" and was reminded that it is a character from that absolute abomination Girls. I cannot imagine regarding that show with anything other than absolute contempt and disdain, making your twitter account handle about being a "stan" for a stupid character from that show is incomprehensible to me. It has also been off the air six years....

She's the only character from the show who was able to hold down a job and took life seriously, spent six seasons being abused/forgotten/ignored by her "friends" while trying to help and support them, and ends the show with a good job, hot fiance and better friends. Her very last lines are literally telling the rest of the three to fuck off and never talk to her again, and she has other scenes of calling them out on their manchild bullshit. It makes sense that people favor her character especially now that Lena Dunham is regarded so poorly in hindsight/people hate-watching, but lbr anyone in this fag's friend group is a copy-pasta of Lena Dunham herself.

I love how unconcerned the girl is in her posture and body language during the whole thing. I don't think that this was a big brain plan to off him, but if she's not on drugs in this, she is super fucking callous and uninvolved in an altercation her boyfriend is in.

She's playing on her phone during the confrontation and probably missed him pulling the knife. I get why people are assuming she doesn't give a shit, but my guess is that she assumed he was just punching him at first (common theme among many stabbing victims). Based on her body language and shocked reaction/sudden motivation to call 911, she didn't recognize how serious it was until after she saw the blood and/or the life going out of his eyes. Still suicidally fucking stupid to have had her guard down and let herself get distracted while in a dangerous neighborhood, especially DURING a violent altercation, but when you're naive and piss-drunk on the kool-aid of thinking you're invincible because you fought a cop or two, live in a hustling bustling city, and have convinced yourself that all minorities are harmless comrades, life comes at you fast. Either she lives with that for the rest of her life, or she stays in denial and blames this on socioeconomic infrastructure.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

They said they went to a wedding. 3:30am is pretty late to be out. I know, city that never sleeps, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to score drugs, especially in that neighborhood. Waiting for a bus? Really?

That's reasonable to assume. They meet a lot of criteria for casual druggies: liberal acab types, septum piercing, tattoos, activist.

 

[Amin Yasister]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/no-od-ny-campaign

it's basically an excuse for them to be unemployed and read poetry while keeping homeless people on fentanyl lmao

It appears there has been just one donation in the last two years. Money still appears to be there.

Why, when he could have used it "for so much good" in the last two years?

 

[Quiritium]

I love how unconcerned the girl is in her posture and body language during the whole thing. I don't think that this was a big brain plan to off him, but if she's not on drugs in this, she is super fucking callous and uninvolved in an altercation her boyfriend is in.

These kinds of people don't have any awareness of the reality around them. When faced with a dangerous situation they cannot process that they're at risk. I have a femoid friend who's exactly like this, and one evening in her obliviousness tried to drag me into a completely unknown situation where six or seven dudes we didn't know were doing something shady and she wanted to meddle. I had to outright tell her if she wanted to do it she could go by herself. I was not going to walk into something I knew nothing about and wasn't any of my business. She replied that if anything went wrong she would just scream and it would be fine, and I calmly replied it would either be too late or nobody would care. But if she wanted to try it she could go right ahead, just not with me. Started walking away and she followed me, never mentioning it again.

I found a new picture of Claudia and Ryan on Twitter. Note that replies are disabled.

All these people are so performative and fake, it makes my skin crawl.

 

[cybertoaster]

It's telling that these people think addicts can't access medical care, social workers, or community resources unless those things are located in an "injection facility." Or that we have so many medical personnel and social workers we can just take them from their normal places of business and put them in injection facilities without interrupting the services they provide to everyone else, including recovering addicts who don't want to be around active drug users.

I'm not entirely sure what it tells us, other than these people are morons.

People like this dead parasite made/make a living out of creating problems that don't exist and exaggerating others, but they never ever bring up actual solutions because then they would be unemployed.

So no they aren't morons, they figured out a way to get 6-figures doing next to nothing while social climbing thru massive virtue signaling, plus being able to network within the government to a higher position that can lead to an even higher paying job in a lobbying firm because of the connections they made.

They are very corrupt bastards making money off the misery of others, not morons.

 

[Saint Agustin]

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

Nobody in their right mind would wait the bus on a nigger neighborhood at 3:30 after a party, you either crash at that place or get a cab.

He deserved to die in my eyes, dude was too stupid to live and just a druggie puppet of the establishment to secure the druggie vote.

 

[The Connected Nose]

NYC really is returning to the pre-Giuliani days, isn't it?

By design, as far as I'm able to tell.

They said they went to a wedding. 3:30am is pretty late to be out. I know, city that never sleeps, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to score drugs, especially in that neighborhood. Waiting for a bus? Really?

SUPPOSEDLY they lived not too far from there. But in that case, why the fuck couldn't they just walk? I'd rather have sore-as-fuck feet the next day from walking a mile or so in dress shoes, than be sitting around looking like a massive target on Malcolm X Boulevard at 3:00 in the fucking morning.

 

[JosephStalin]

Observation....as long as this shit was happening to us, 'they' didn't care. Now that things are happening to 'them', 'they' are all up in arms and believe we should care. We don't. Fuck 'them', fully and eternally.

 

[The Gene Genie]

The best thing is the GoFundMe in his name.

It isn't for his funeral like you might think.

No, it's so his oh-so-close friends, who are badly scarred by his stabbing death, can go out and party.

As an aside, since I have nothing to contribute here that hasn't already been said...

I hope my friends do this when I die. I don't care. Anyone who's willing to part with their money on such a shameless grift to party and do drugs deserves to lose it.

 

[Reepicheep]

Mr. Carson's girlfriend,when reached for comment, had this to say:

"he was genuinely a man who had run into a bout of bad luck, and he unfortunately felt inclined to lash out at a system that hated and oppressed him for a long time. Ryan would understand that it wasn't his fault, and that the utopia he had wanted to create would not be accomplished by vengefully sending an innocent man to jail. This is why I'm helping to see his release soon, and that we can put this mess behind us. It's what Ryan would want."

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Mr. Carson's girlfriend,when reached for comment, had this to say:

"he was genuinely a man who had run into a bout of bad luck, and he unfortunately felt inclined to lash out at a system that hated and oppressed him for a long time. Ryan would understand that it wasn't his fault, and that the utopia he had wanted to create would not be accomplished by vengefully sending an innocent man to jail. This is why I'm helping to see his release soon, and that we can put this mess behind us. It's what Ryan would want."

Totally a hit job.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

I've got to admit, that gofundme has really impressed me, despite it being absolutely morally abhorrent. Takes some chops to do something like that and you've got to admire a person who just doesn't give a shit to such a degree.

Can you even call it a grift when they're being so open about wanting to profit from his death?

What must his family be thinking?

Amazing stuff.

It's better that the donated money will be going to buy drugs for commie degenerates that will hopefully do the world a favor and od.

The nitwits who donated the money would probably have otherwise donated it to dogshit progressive politicians, and giving fentanyl money to help junkies solve themselves is a much better investment.

 

[Ishtar]

Seeing the Leftoid reaction to this has been as infuriating as it has been illuminating.

They have attempted to shame "conservatives" as "bad people" or "ghoulish" for making fun of this, while when pressed on if that's different then when they mock the deaths of conservatives say "oh that's different, their bad people".

I get it, friend-enemy distinction and all, but its a level of sociopathy I find astounding. I don't think they're really upset some leftoid man died-even in a general sense, I get the honest impression they'd rather not be talking about it-but to try to shame conservatives to adhering to facile "civility" norms.

 

[Sniperwoof]

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?

 

[Ishtar]

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?

Leftists on Twitter trying to shame right wing mockery come across almost bitter and forced-like they really aren't putting their hearts into it. Its just the go to response.

Some are bemoaning how cruel Rwers are, others like I said basically saying "we good, you bad", and others are going with the "uh but no amount of police would have prevented his death, or it proves him right". Its honestly been a really weak response.

 

[Kiwisee]

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?

Something tells me that, like many progs, he has likely alienated anyone in his life who was to the right of Marx and ended up surrounding himself with altruistic sociopaths.

Marxists demand others to show civility and compassion because they themselves lack empathy. Their lack of empathy and compassion really surfaces when they’re confronted by women/gays/any racial minority who sees them as the sociopathic lunatics that they really are.

These people are incapable of showing love to anyone for free, because they don’t understand what love is.

A normal, high functioning and well adjusted adult would not only be demanding that the killer be put away for life but would also be demanding a return to execution.

These people, however, can’t do that because that would go against every single retarded policy that they promote.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

https://archive.vn/mq3Je

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>friend dies
>grift money to go on vacation to "remember him"

Holy shit these ghouls are soul-less sacks of absolute shit

lol, this is in addition to the GFM

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I live in a fairly safe area and I wouldn't leave the damn house at 3:50am unless I had to, much less stand at a bus stop with my girlfriend. I don't think she's in on anything but she seems to be the calmest person in the world based on that video, even apologizing to that other woman?

Holy fuuukkk it gets worse

I'm guessing they both bought the bullshit that since they were "allies" that they were safe

Ryan was on Twitter celebrating the death of someone HE loathed politically (Rush Limbaugh). This is what he would have wanted

Totally agree

They said they went to a wedding. 3:30am is pretty late to be out. I know, city that never sleeps, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to score drugs, especially in that neighborhood. Waiting for a bus? Really?

Yep, probably looking to score some coke, meth, or fentanyl for the after-party.

You'd be surprised at how absolutely drugged up the yuppie grifter class is

Still suicidally fucking stupid to have had her guard down and let herself get distracted while in a dangerous neighborhood, especially DURING a violent altercation, but when you're naive and piss-drunk on the kool-aid of thinking you're invincible because you fought a cop or two, live in a hustling bustling city, and have convinced yourself that all minorities are harmless comrades, life comes at you fast. Either she lives with that for the rest of her life, or she stays in denial and blames this on socioeconomic infrastructure

Yep. I'm guessing she's already blaming the whyte devil for this.

 

[Cuckoman]

This is the guy whose girlfriend set up a gofund me for the murderer, right?
Or was that one of the other faggots that got whacked lately?

Imagine how much of an unbearable faggot you must be if while you are being stabbed to death, your girlfriend standing next to you is playing on her phone. And then later she sets up a gofundme for the guy that killed you.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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?

To be fair that is less reflective of the individual and more the cunts currently profiting off his death.

To use your own example the patrons heard he had no-one, knew about his death and due to their own personal moral standards said "well he at least deserves a marked grave."

In contrast this fellow's immediate company went begging money for them to have a break from work. Had one of them gone to the local business in the days after his death asking for donations towards a memorial they might have got them. Now, with that GoFundMe in place, anyone doing minimum research would reply "get it from there instead."

It's like the Extinction Rebellion lot who were absent for some of their rank and file getting sentenced to jail time in terms of financial or legal support but when one of them kills themselves they are brandishing the corpse before it is cold for personal gain.