A series of attacks has a Brooklyn neighborhood on edge -- the weekend acts of violence happening back-to-back, with the final one leaving an 83-year-old man dead.
Joevani Vale, 26, is the subject of a police manhunt following the stabbing death of his neighbor inside the Wyckoff Gardens complex on Nevins Street. The victim was reportedly found dead inside a building elevator around 2:30 p.m.
Police later identified the victim as Ramon Cintron. Neighbors were effusive about his kindness.
"This old man never bothered anyone," one woman said. "He brought prescriptions to everyone in this neighborhood."
The Saturday crime scenes are all within five blocks of each other in Boerum Hill.
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A witness says Vale slashed a woman in the thigh outside a restaurant on Nevins Street around 1:30 p.m. Employees of the restaurant ran outside with a first aid kit to try and help before she was transported to a hospital for further care.
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Minutes later, police sources say the man then punched a woman blocks away standing at Pacific Street and 3rd Avenue.
The third and final attack transpired less than an hour after the first, when Vale allegedly knifed his neighbor in the arm and neck. The 26-year-old suspect was previously arrested for assault in 2020 and forcible touching and public lewdness in 2016, police source say.
The NYPD established a mobile command post in the neighborhood to coordinate the manhunt for Vale.
