The search for a suspect involved in two stabbings in Brooklyn continues, authorities said.
Police say they are looking for 26-year-old Joevani Vale, who is accused of stabbing two people, causing one to die, Saturday afternoon.
Police were called to 185 Nevins St. a little before 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to the NYPD, officers found the victim with stab wounds to the neck and right arm.
Ramon Cintron, 83, was pronounced dead at the Wyckoff Gardens NYCHA Complex.
“He is [a] very friendly guy. He was a nice guy,” says Charlotte Wilson, who has lived in the building since 1996.
She, like many in the building, knew Cintron from seeing the elderly man around the building
“I don’t think there was anyone out here that didn’t like him. You understand? I find it very odd that someone would do what they did to him,” said Wilson.
Around 1:30 p.m. Saturday, police were called to 135 Nevins St. — about two blocks from where Cintron was killed.
Police say they found a 31-year-old woman who had been slashed in the leg.
She was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover, according to the NYPD.
Investigators say they believe the two stabbings are connected.
“We suffered a terrible tragedy. A 83-year-old man, a beloved neighbor known by all this, Flaco, who worked at a corner store in the community,” says Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler, who spoke with neighbors and authorities about the violence that happened in his district. “[He] was brutally killed, stabbed to death in an elevator at gardens.”
“Terrible. That’s a shame. People don’t have any respect for the elderly anymore,” said Betty Lester, who lives in the neighborhood. “Could have been anybody. Could be it could be anybody, any one of us. Any time you all got to catch this person, whoever it is now, he may not even be in a neighborhood now. He might be uptown, stabbing somebody else in the neck.”