Man stabbed to death in Brooklyn
NEW YORK - The NYPD is searching for a suspect after a man was stabbed to death in Brooklyn on Saturday morning.
Police say they found Kerwin Cox, 35, lying unconscious and unresponsive on a sidewalk at around 1:30 a.m. on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights.
Authorities say that Cox got into an argument with another man, which escalated. The other man took out a knife and stabbed Cox several times in the torso before running away on Franklin Avenue towards Eastern Parkway.
Cox was rushed to Interfaith Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
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Police describe the suspect as around 5'8" and weighing 185 lbs., and was last seen wearing a blue hooded Nike sweatshirt, blue jeans, a blue baseball hat, and blue/white Nike sneakers.
Just a few hours earlier, a man was shot in the head and killed in Flatbush, but police have not said if the two incidents are related.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
Police say all calls are strictly confidential.