Bronx stabbing: Suspect arrested after 53-year-old man stabbed to death on his way to work in Mott Haven
MELROSE, The Bronx (WABC) — A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder after a man was fatally stabbed on his way to work in the Bronx on Monday.
Sean Jones, 38, was arrested on Tuesday, and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
He’s accused of killing 53-year-old George Ennin, a father of two, who worked as a security guard.
“This man was one in a million, he was a diamond in the rough,” said the victim’s neighbor Michele King. “He raised two daughters single handedly.”
Ennin was a girl dad, and was well loved and well respected for it.
“Well-dressed, good-looking man, smelled good,” King said. “So, when you see a man like that, you want to kiss the ground he walked.”
The NYPD said the suspect was an apparent stranger, accused of violently stabbing Ennin to death on Third Avenue without warning, and for no reason at all. It happened near East 157th Street in the Melrose section on Monday afternoon.
“The nature of what happened to George is gruesome,” said the victim’s neighbor, Louis.
The 53-year-old, who had just returned from a month-long trip home to Ghana, is last seen leaving his apartment building heading to work as a security guard just before 2 p.m.
He actually walks past the 42nd Precinct, and a few blocks away, surveillance videos show a man coming from the opposite direction. He is seen trying to kick Ennin.
Ennin blocks the sudden blow and the suspect stubbles, but he regains his footing, and charges after Ennin with a knife.
The father of two quickly backs away when he stumbles on uneven bricks on the sidewalk and falls down.
Video shows the moment just before the stabbing occurs.
“How do you go home, to go half way around the world to get murdered?” King said.
The surveillance video continues. After Ennin is stabbed, he gets up, manages to take 29 steps halfway down the sidewalk looking for help, then collapses 57 seconds later, leaving the devoted father of two fighting for his life. He would later die from his injuries.
“I didn’t know who it was. I just, when I was walking to go to the pharmacy, I saw it,” said the victim’s neighbor, Perry. “I just walked around it. I didn’t know it was him.”
“He made a home for those two girls. They’re college bound; they’re A students,” King said. “He started over here at the supermarket and from that, he went on to do security.”
Authorities do not believe the suspect and victim knew each other.
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