BREAKING: Suspect identified in killing of far-left activist in Brooklyn
The person of interest reportedly smashed items in his girlfriend’s apartment after a recent fight.
The person of interest reportedly smashed items in his girlfriend’s apartment after a recent fight.

Police have identified a person of interest in the stabbing and subsequent killing of poet and far-left activist Ryan Carson.
Investigators have reported that the man seen stabbing Carson on video is likely an 18-year-old man who had smashed items in his girlfriend's apartment following a fight about two months ago.
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View on XThe man's aunt called 911 at the time, and described him as mentally disturbed, according to sources.
Police sources report that the alleged killer currently works at a high school in Clinton Hill.
Video of the harrowing incident showed a conflict between Carson and the suspect that ended in a brutal stabbing.
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View on XA woman who the New York Post reports is thought to be the stabber’s gal pal appeared to bellow at him to stop — and then took off after him after briefly speaking to the victim’s horrified girlfriend, according to the outer and the footage. She appears to mutter the name "Brian" upon addressing the suspect.
Carson was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center but ultimately could not be saved.
A former classmate of Carson named Acadia Cutschall described him as her "best friend" and recounted a time he had convinced a mugger to not steal from him—by handing over money.
“I was present once when he literally talked a guy out of mugging him,” she said. “He gave him some money.”
She also said that Carson would have likely attempted to assist the man who had killed him had he been given the opportunity to do so.
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View on XCarson was notably a leftist activist, as was his girlfriend Claudia V. Morales, who openly expressed her hatred toward police during the Black Lives Matter "protests" in 2020.
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