https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/...klyn-bus-stop/

Advocate stabbed to death by unhinged stranger while waiting for Brooklyn bus with girlfriend



An advocate with a blossoming career influencing public policy was stabbed to death by an unhinged stranger while waiting for a Brooklyn bus early Monday on the way home from a wedding with his girlfriend, police sources said.

Ryan Carson worked as the senior solid waste campaign director at the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group. In 2021, separate from his NYPIRG work, he walked 350 miles across New York State to pressure then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo into legalizing safe drug injection sites throughout New York.

“One of the rising stars in our organization,” said a shaken Blair Horner, executive director of NYPIRG. “Wonderful person, hardworking, loud boisterous laugh. Everybody loved him.”

Carson, 32, spearheaded the 2021 “No OD NY” campaign. The initiative saw him and supporters walk from City Hall in Manhattan to Buffalo, with stops in Albany and other cities. He raised more than $20,000 for the campaign through a successful GoFundMe.

“I don’t think it’s at all an exaggeration to say that it’s a big loss for the city,” Ari Farrell, a friend of the victim, said of Carson’s slaying. “Anybody in his personal life will tell you he’s one of the best, the most moral, they’ve ever met.”

Carson co-wrote a 2021 Daily News op-ed “New York falters on ******** and the opioid crisis,” which accused Cuomo of touting his handling of the COVID epidemic while ignoring the spread of ******** throughout the state.

He was waiting with his girlfriend at the B46 bus stop on Malcolm X Blvd. near Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant after taking the Long Island Rail Road back from a wedding when a belligerent stranger started knocking over scooters parked nearby around 3:50 a.m., cops said.

“What are you looking at?” the man snarled at the startled couple before stabbing Carson twice in the chest, according to cops.

Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved. He was about a mile from his apartment when he was stabbed.

His killer ran off and is on the loose.

Over 100 people gathered at a vigil in Herbert Von King Park nearby Carson’s Bedford-Stuyvesant home, where friends and family circled a large oak tree and embraced one another as they remembered the slain man.

Carson’s parents held each other and fought back tears before addressing the distraught mourners.

“He came here, and he was like a burning ember,” Ken Carson said of his son’s move to the city. “He met you, and it grew and grew. He built circle upon circle upon circle. There were mismatches, but it was like a Venn diagram. He found a family here, and you’ll always be part of it.”

Carson was set to turn 32 on Friday, and friends were planning a birthday bash.

“There’s a big party on Saturday,” said Bucky Illingworth, 31, Carson’s roommate. “It was gonna be here, and then we were gonna go for a hike in a week or two.”

Illingworth described Carson, who was 6-feet-4, as “the friendliest giant ever.”

“Always down to meet new friends, cook, always had a beer for you,” Illingworth added.

Following the ********-related overdose death of a 1-year-old boy at a Bronx day care last month, NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan called the synthetic opioid the most dangerous threat to New Yorkers’ health since COVID.

“I’m passionate about safe injection facilities because I’ve seen family members become addicted to opioids prescribed for pain caused by their occupations,” Carson wrote in the 2021 GoFundMe. “I’ve lost friends and family to the opioid epidemic, including my best friend, who died of a heroin overdose in 2016.”

OnPoint NYC would later open the first safe injection sites in the country in Washington Heights and East Harlem with the city’s blessing in November 2021. Safe injection sites remain illegal on the state and federal levels.

Carson enjoyed sports and attending concerts with friends.

“He was a huge basketball fan, Celtics fan, Red Sox fan,” Carson’s roommate said. “He loved music. We went to shows together all the time.”

Celtics and Red Sox in Brooklyn?

Good riddance ph4ggot.

with his "girlfriend"

I dont even know if I feel bad for the parents for leftist cucks, anymore. They raised him to incentivize crime in his own city.

who the phuck takes the bus at 3:50am?

Relax, end up on your back.

At the Malcom X Blvd bus stop too lol.

Sounds like he genuinely believed he was doing the right thing and was a compassionate person. However, from a utilitarian perspective, he made life worse for everyone. Thus, the words of anonymous angry commenter seem appropriate here: " Rest in piss. You won't be missed."

riiiiiiiight

Rest In Piss (dfs)

lmao bye bitch

Girlfriend probably rode off with the stabber too. Brootal

lol love him for this

Seems like a stand up guy