Brooklyn homeless shelter worker stabbed to death by masked suspect

Brooklyn employee homeless shelter was brutally stabbed in front of the institution on Thursday evening, the police say.

The gruesome incident took place at the Days Inn hotel that the city turned into a shelter on East New York Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood.

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Migrants arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The still unnamed employee (35) was attacked around 6:20 p.m., and then she ran into the building for help. He was stabbed multiple times in the neck and abdomen and was bleeding profusely in the lobby when medics arrived and transported him to Brookdale Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Response Team (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Police are looking for a male suspect, dressed in black, wearing a baseball cap and a ski mask.

There is currently no information on what prompted the gruesome attack, but there have been several hotels converted into homeless accommodation in the area, and there have been plenty of violent crimes in the past.

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One neighbor said in remarks to the New York Post: “They turned all the hotels here into shelters during COVID. There’s four or five more here. Lots of stings. Lots of problems.”

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New York City struggles with violent crime on its streets and public transportation, a problem only exacerbated by a wave of illegal immigrants arriving without shelter. Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly expressed frustration with the federal government and claimed the city lacks the funds to care for them.

As of April 2022, an estimated 220,000 migrants have poured into the city, and more than 58,000 are currently being cared for by New York City taxpayers, according to City Hall reports.