A man was stabbed to death outside the center of Brooklyn’s Barclay after being attacked by a group of teenagers, the police and sources said.
Michael Hernandez ran near Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues when he was apparently set up by four people, once in the chest and several times in the back around 9 p.m. Friday, the police and sources said.
Hernandez, 27, able to walk away, but then collapsed in the neighborhood on Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, the sources said.
He was transferred to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he later died.
A 55-year-old who lives in an apartment with a view of the scene, said he was screaming around 9 p.m., but thought it was teenagers he had heard a few hours earlier.
“Like about 9 at night, I heard some noise, screaming,” said engineer Bjorn Breivik.
“I thought it was the young people who had fun.”
About 15 or 20 minutes later he heard the police, the resident of Norway said.
“There were many agents, six or seven cars, about 25 agents.” he said.
“I saw a pee that I think was blood. … it was the center of the street (in). “
“It’s really terrible,” he said.
“He is a human and someone does that with goal.”
Frode Thorsen, 60, who is also an engineer from Norway, walked with his dog, tax, in the area and was visibly shaken when he heard about the murder.
“Oh Jesus!” said Thorsen.
“It’s not good that someone was killed.”
Thorsen sometimes runs through his dog until 11 p.m., but he is not worried, he said.
“I have a dog to watch over me,” he said.
“He lets me know if anyone is approaching me.”
Retired professor Linda Farhood-Karasavva, 76, who travels from Manhattan to Brooklyn, was often on his way to see a show and called the murder ‘disgusting’.
“It happens too much,” she said. ‘I am a mother … I cannot imagine that I will lose your child that way, to be killed?
For her it seems that “the whole city falls apart,” she said.
“I love this city,” she said. “I was born here and I hate to see it go down like that. I have lived all over the world, I have traveled everywhere, but I am always happy to come home – but not on this. “
