Party-Crasher Fatally Stabs Bouncer, Injures Another After Being Denied Entry

A party-crasher has been accused of stabbing a bouncer to death in Brooklyn after the latter stopped him from entering an event space during a bash, authorities said.

The suspect also allegedly knifed and injured another bouncer.

The 20-year-old man showed up at the bash at a recently opened event space located on the ground floor of a building on Seventh Street, near Third Avenue, in Gowanus at around 10:40 p.m. ET on Saturday. However, the bouncers prevented him from entering the venue, the New York Daily News reported.

A scuffle ensued outside the building, which is close to the popular Bell House music venue, and the man stabbed a 25-year-old bouncer in the chest. He also knifed another bouncer, aged 21, in the back, cops said, as per the outlet.

A woodworker identified as Pat, who lives in the area and has a workshop next door to the venue, believes the party was held in celebration of someone's birthday. He told the outlet the stabbing took place only an hour after the fight broke out.

"There had to be 50 to 100 people at this party," he said. "I saw a bunch of arguing... Somebody in the crowd, yelled, 'He has a knife!'"

He said he ran to help the victim who was dying. "I saw the kid just laying there motionless and all the blood," he recalled. "Nobody seemed to go help him so I went to go help him."

The woodworker said he got some rags from his workshop so he could apply pressure to the wound in the bouncer's chest. "I rolled him onto his back he was not responsive," he said. "When I pulled his mask off he wasn't responsive so I ripped his shirt and I found out where he was stabbed — his chest almost where your heart is. It was a deep laceration, it wasn't a small knife. It was a big wound."

"I know you apply pressure to wounds that are bleeding out," he further told the outlet. "I was applying pressure to his chest."

First responders rushed both victims to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Unfortunately, the older bouncer could not be saved. As for the younger one, he was listed in stable condition, Crime Online reported.

Cops took the suspect into custody and said charges against him were pending. They did not disclose the identities of the suspect and the two victims, according to the outlet.

Earlier this month, a man was accused of stabbing a 19-year-old girl on an Upper Manhattan train for refusing to answer his question. The girl was reportedly on a train with her boyfriend when the attacker approached her to ask what time it was. The couple did not answer the suspect and kept ignoring him while the man asked the same question multiple times. The agitated suspect then stabbed the woman in her arm before escaping the train.