Thursday, police said an ex-convict with 15 prior arrests was caught intimidating a youth by stabbing them in the neck near City Hall and then walking away.
Crazy smirking Authorities say that Marvin Dupree, 41, walked up behind 19-year-old Brooklyn College student Alan Ryvkin and stabbed him in the neck around 11:30 a.m., while Ryvkin was waiting outside of a building on Center Street to argue a traffic summons.
Police say they caught the accused grinning killer in Harlem hours after the attack and charged him with felony assault.
In front of the building at 1 Center St., Ryvkin said he was talking to a woman when the stranger walked up behind him and knifed him.
“The guy looked at me and smiled with the knife in his hand as he walked away,” Ryvkin told The Post over the phone on Wednesday.
“I had no idea who it was.” It is not clear to me. I was stabbed, and now I am lying on the ground bleeding.
A 24-year-old man named Sam Townsell worked as a bartender at the outdoor Jury Duty bar and saw as a bloody and clearly shocked Ryvkin was put into an ambulance.
When she saw the violence in the late morning, just a few steps from NYPD offices, she said she was shocked.
Townsell said, “It is scary—there is a police station right there.”
Since there are cops all over this place, you would not think that this kind of violence would happen. It is kind of scary because you can not go anywhere around here without seeing a police officer.
Ryvkin was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with a stab wound in the area between his lower neck and upper back.
“It is terrible,” said the lifelong New Yorker. “I do not feel like being in New York right now.” It is not safe at all.
Meanwhile, Dupree was also taken to Bellevue after being arrested, but police do not know why.
Police say that Dupree has a history of arrests for assault, aggravated harassment, criminal possession of a controlled drug, menacing, and resisting arrest.
He was last caught in July for threatening people in Harlem, but cops say that case is now closed.
It was his last attack in June 2012, also in Harlem, but the case has been closed, according to the police.
In the past, he was found guilty of selling drugs illegally and spent just over four years in state jail before beginning parole in November 2019.
He spent less than a year in jail for drug possession before he was released on parole in July 2006. Before that, he sold drugs for about six years before he was released in October 2013.