Posted on 07/31/2022 3:44:27 PM PDT by grundle
A New York City smoke shop employee has been arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing of a 59-year-old homeless man who allegedly picked a fight with the store’s elderly manager.
The New York Police Department said it responded around noon Saturday to a 911 call about a man stabbed at the Magic 7 Smoke Shop located at 174 W. Fordham Road in the Bronx.
Upon arrival, officers observed a homeless man, later identified as 59-year-old Kenneth Fair, unconscious and unresponsive with a stab wound to the neck.
EMS responded and transported the seriously injured man to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was later pronounced deceased.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim "was involved in a verbal dispute with a store employee in front of the location when the 54-year-old suspect (also a store employee) approached the victim from behind and stabbed the victim in the neck," according to the police department.
Kenneth Gowdy, 54, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the incident, police said.
The violent episode reportedly began when the homeless man complained as the smoke shop’s 78-year-old manager carried boxes into the store, according to N.Y. Daily News, which cited police sources. Fair allegedly intentionally bumped into the shop manager, before then taking a swing at the elderly man.
That’s when Gowdy, who works at the shop and lives around the corner, came up behind the homeless man and stabbed him in the neck, according to the newspaper.
Gowdy reportedly has nine prior arrests, the most recent of which was in 2011 for a forcible touching charge. Meanwhile, Fair’s arrest record stretched back to 1989 and included multiple assaults, robbery and criminal weapon possession charges, a source told the newspaper.
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anyone know where i can find an audio version of the pink swatika?
I thought they dropped the charges after public pressure?
This is a different case.
This appears to be different shop owner attacked. Got a White guy to persecute this time.
You can’t use a gun to defend yourself and your store in New York.
Now you can’t use a knife.
Is it the law, now, you must fold up into the fetal position and whimper, when accosted?
They do not want the people to defend themselves.
Outrageous
New York city is run by the democrat party enemy of freedom.
SPJNK
Smoke'em Danno!
This case would seem to depend on exact timing of the stabbing relative to the threat posed by Fair. At the time when Gowdy stuck Fair (the assailant), was Fair still endangering the elderly shop owner? If yes: righteous self-defense. If no, murder of some low degree. In either case, give Gowdy a medal and send him home.
SPJNK.
Is a “Louisville Slugger” bat illegal to use for defense?
Gowdy reportedly has nine prior arrests
Self defense and defense of others: now a felony in New York. /wish that was sarc
New Yorkers have the government they want. They voted for it and now they have it. I lived there in the early 70s and the problem is New Yorkers. They hate guns they look down with contempt on anyone who doesn’t live in “The City”. They are ignorant of what goes on West of the Hudson by choice. They are close minded especially on political matters - when I said I thought Nixon got a raw deal they acted as if I confessed to ritual cannibalism. Worst place I ever lived
Yeah, you haven't met truly mentally defective until you meet some residents of New York City.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect puts it mildly.
What the hell does that mean?
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