Greenpoint Murder Suspect Caught, Police Say

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — Police have captured the man accused of stabbing a playwright to death near McGolrick Park earlier this month.

Gary Correa, 19, was arrested on a murder charge less than two weeks after George Carroll, 42, was killed outside 155 Monitor Street on Aug. 18 around 9:30 p.m., police said.

The NYPD's Fugitive Task Force captured Correa on Norman Avenue between Dobbin and Guernsey streets around 1 p.m. Thursday, police said.

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Correa, a resident of the Bushwick houses with 13 prior arrests, was identified by witnesses as the man who killed Carroll, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said three days after the fatal stabbing.

"Mr. Carroll was walking down the street, and just some eyes back and forth led to a dispute with this male who came up to him and stabbed him one time in the chest causing his demise," said Boyce.

"He is the perpetrator."

The New York Post reported that Carroll had been walking home with his wife Christina Carroll, 41, when Correa and another man, who were sitting on the steps of a local school asked him, "What are you looking at?"

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

Carroll's wife watched in horror as Correa chased down her husband, stabbed him to death and fled, police and reports said.

“George was a playwright and actor who loved deeply and passionately,” wrote Christina Romero Carroll on the GoFundMe page she launched to raise money for her husband’s funeral.

“He was fiercely loyal, and stood up for what was right,” she wrote, and called his death, “a random act of violence.”

It was not the first random act of violence the couple faced in New York City — the Carrolls moved to Greenpoint hoping to find a safer place to live after witnessing the murder of NYPD Officer Peter Figoski in 2011.

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Photo courtesy of the NYPD.