Greenpoint Stabbing: Stranger Kills Man Walking Home With Wife, NYPD And Report Says

GREENPOINT, NY – A man died after being stabbed in the chest in Greenpoint, police said. The New York Post reported that he was murdered by a stranger he'd looked at the wrong way as his wife watched on in horror.

The NYPD said George Carroll, 42, died in the attack at 155 Monitor Street at 9.31 p.m. Friday – just steps from his home at 178 Monitor Street. Nobody had been arrested as of Saturday night.

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The Post reported Carroll had been walking home with his wife Christina Carroll, 41, when one of two men sitting on the steps of a local school asked him, "What are you looking at?"

Christina Carroll told the Post: "My husband - he's a Texan – he's like, 'I'm looking.'

“They got into it. They were chasing him. My husband ran. He threw his phone at them to try to defend himself. It was just so quick . . . There was so much blood."

Police said the Carroll was rushed to Woodhull Hospital where he died. The killer fled the scene.

The Post reported that the couple had recently moved to Greenpoint from Cypress Hills because they thought it would be safer.

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