George Ennin, 53, was on his way to his security guard job around 2 p.m. Monday when he was unexpectedly attacked by a stranger and stabbed multiple times just a few blocks from his home.
Ennin, a father of two, was taken to Lincoln Hospital, but unfortunately, he could not be saved, authorities stated on Wednesday.
Police later arrested Sean Jones, a 38-year-old repeat offender with a history of violent crimes in Manhattan and the Bronx, charging him with murder, manslaughter, and weapons possession in the unprovoked attack outside 3077 Third Avenue in Mott Haven, according to police.
Ricky Javier, who works at Daisy’s Pizza nearby, reported hearing terrifying “screams.”
“I couldn’t see what was going on [but] I saw the attacker running away,” he told The Post. “We live in the Bronx, so you kind of get used to it.”
Ennin was a cherished father of two girls, as reported by ABC 7.
“This man was one in a million, he was a diamond in the rough,” said the victim’s neighbor, Michele King, to the outlet. “He raised two daughters all by himself.”
Jones escaped on foot but was captured by the NYPD in the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon. He was set to be arraigned on Wednesday.
Law enforcement sources revealed that Jones has 15 previous unsealed arrests dating back to 2012, including robbery, assault, forgery, and criminal sale of marijuana — and he was the subject of four previous police reports regarding an emotionally disturbed person.
In one incident in 2013, Jones was charged with biting a police officer while being arrested in a subway fare evasion case, the sources noted.
Police also reported that he assaulted a 38-year-old woman on East 166th Street and Trinity Avenue in the Bronx on March 12, 2019, stealing her benefits card before fleeing.
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office indicated that he pleaded guilty to third-degree robbery on Nov. 22, 2019, and received a sentence of four months of probation as a violent felon.
Ennin’s Bronx neighbors mourned his senseless slaying.
“He was a really nice man, good father,” one downstairs neighbor said. “They were a quiet family.”
Source: New York Post