One man was stabbed to death and another was wounded outside a Brooklyn housing project early Friday — less than two days after police arrested a teen gunman for a September murder at the same troubled complex, cops said.
Officers responding to a 12:33 a.m. 911 call at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene found a 34-year-old man stabbed in the chest who had tried to stumble toward Myrtle Ave.
EMS rushed him to Brooklyn Hospital but he could not be saved.
A second 45-year-old man was also stabbed in the chest, but he was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition, said police.
Police said a third man was spotted approaching the victims and attacking them for reasons not yet clear. There have been no arrests.
On Wednesday, cops charged Ziquan Thompson, 18, with murder and gun possession for the death of Wayne Lafontant on Sept. 12 — a shooting less than 300 feet from Friday’s stabbing.
Lafontant, 23, was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead.
“I just said that it wasn’t me,” Thompson — wearing a hoodie with the words “Buy your own f—king weed” on it — said at his court appearance Friday to his lawyer when asked if he said anything to the cops. His lawyer quickly shushed him.
Thompson and another man were allegedly caught on surveillance footage shooting at Lafontant, and a gun recovered from a nearby building had Thompson’s DNA on it — along with the DNA of two others, prosecutors said.
“If in fact it’s his DNA it could be from weeks, months ago,” said Thompson’s lawyer, Mario Romano, at his arraignment.
Thompson was ordered held without bail in the murder case, and was also slapped with criminal possession of a weapon charges after he was picked up by cops on May 18 at the Farragut Houses with a gun in his waistband, according to prosecutors.
The Ingersoll Houses have been plagued death and violence in the last year.
In June 2020, convicted drug dealer Earl Morgan, 50, was charged with murder for shooting dead Joheem Hamilton, 25, and wounding another man a month earlier inside a Monument Walk building.
This April 22, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting on N. Portland Ave., on the perimeter of the houses.
Earlier this week, Dandre Brown, 64, and his girlfriend, Lisa Petty, 51, were found dead in their apartment on Monument Walk, though it’s not clear if they were the victims of a crime.
