‘It’s still not registering… We had just seen an apartment — we were going to see two more apartments today. I can’t believe we’re talking about him in the past,’ said Christina Romero Carroll about her late husband, who was stabbed to death on Friday.
George Carroll, 42, had just left dinner with his wife, Christina Romero Carroll, around 9.30pm when they came across a group of people.
They were walking down Monitor Street in Greenpoint near the group who were hanging out around an SUV, Carroll’s wife told NBC 4.
George Carroll (pictured), 42, of Brooklyn, was stabbed to death by a stranger as he walked home alongside his wife on Friday
Carroll had just left dinner with his wife, Christina Romero Carroll, around 9.30pm when they came across a group of people hanging out around an SUV. Police said the incident took place near Msgr. McGoldrick Park (pictured) in Brooklyn
Romero Carroll said one of the men looked at her husband and spoke to him. She said the man then chased her husband, stabbed him and took off in the SUV. Photos of the scene showed yellow police tape surrounding a bloody sidewalk
One of the men looked at her husband and spoke to him.
‘It’s basically “what are you looking at?” That was it,’ Romero Carroll recalled. ‘And my husband, he’s a Texan, he’s like “I’m…looking.”‘
She said the man then chased her husband, stabbed him, and took off in the SUV. Carroll was taken to Woodhull Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Authorities said the incident took place near Msgr. McGoldrick Park in Brooklyn.
Photos of the scene showed yellow police tape surrounding a bloody sidewalk.
Carroll was a writer and actor who was originally from Texas, his wife said. He moved to New York in 2001 and they recently moved from East New York to Greenpoint because they thought it would be safer, his wife told NBC.
No arrests have been made in the incident and police have not provided a description of the man.
Despite Greenpoint’s rapidly rising rents and high standard of living, residents of the neighborhood say that over at McGolrick Park, less than a block from where Carroll was stabbed, a growing homeless population and raucous youth are causing concerns.
‘There has been a group of older teens. They hang out by the schoolhouse or the park. I won’t go by them, whether it’s day or night,’ John Allens, a truck driver, told The New York Post.
Carroll (pictured with his wife on their wedding day) was a writer and actor who was originally from Texas, his wife said. He moved to New York in 2001 and they recently moved from East New York to Greenpoint because they thought it would be safer
‘They’re loud, they’re rowdy . . . Neighbors have been complaining, but nothing got done. Within the last few years, the surge of drugs in the neighborhood is incredible. You can smell the reefer everywhere.’
Danielle Pirhaly, 40, a dental assistant in New York City, described the kids who have taken over the park ‘young punks.’
‘They like to go and cause trouble. There are always fights here . . . They beat up a young kid, stuffed him in the garbage. They broke someone’s jaw,’ she claimed.
No arrests have been made in the incident and police have not provided a description of the man.
Romero Carroll says now that all she hopes for is that the killer is caught and brought to justice.
‘These people are still out there,’ she said. ‘I just want to get the word out. Sometimes we see something and we don’t know what we’re looking at. . Maybe if there is more information someone can say, “Oh I saw this.’ ”
Police are asking anyone with information about the murder to submit tips to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577.