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Police did not release information on a suspected motive for the killing and there were no arrests

Monday, 15 February 2010

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A 44-year-old Guyanese who worked as a security guard in Manhattan was stabbed to death early Sunday morning behind a Brooklyn gas station as he walked home from a party. According to a report in the New York Daily News, Anthony Blair was knifed in the neck along Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 2 am and was dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital a short time later, police said. Blair, who had multiple prior arrests, was slain behind a Getty station near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Utica Avenue.

Police did not release information on a suspected motive for the killing and there were no arrests as of late Sunday afternoon.

Blair immigrated to New York from Guyana about 20 years ago, and had a security job in Manhattan, his girlfriend, Deborah Umadhan, who is the mother of the couple’s year-old son told the New York Daily News.

Blair had multiple prior arrests on his record, including busts for drug possession, shoplifting and threatening someone with two kitchen knives, a police source said.

Anthony Blair, 44, pictured with girlfriend Deborah. (New York Daily News photo)

Umadhan said she and Blair lived near the parking lot where he was slain.
“I came home and saw the ambulance. Then I saw him,” she said, choking back tears. “It was horrible.”

Singara Singh, 42, a clerk at the Getty station, said the police reviewed the footage from a security camera behind the store, hoping it had filmed the deadly encounter, the newspaper said.
Singh, of Queens, said the gas station is surrounded by a rough neighbourhood.
“It’s very dangerous here. You have a lot of projects nearby,” he said.

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