The Brooklyn man knifed to dying aboard an L practice was a tough working father remembered by household and mates as a “Canarsie legend” for his athletic prowess, they informed The Publish.
Tommy Bailey, 43, apparently received into an argument with one other man close to the Atlantic Avenue subway station simply earlier than 9 p.m. Friday when the opposite man pulled out a knife and stabbed him within the neck earlier than operating off, the NYPD mentioned.
“He was simply mainly a tough working man. He most likely needed to keep slightly late at his job,” mentioned Bailey’s girlfriend, Ivy Reddin, 36, who lived one flooring beneath him in Canarsie. “The final time I spoke to him was six o’clock.”
The sufferer would “go to work daily, didn’t hassle anyone,” mentioned his youthful brother, Andrein Hernandez Mayers, 37, noting he was stunned Baileywas out so late when he was killed.
“I actually thought he was downstairs along with his girlfriend,” the brother mentioned.
Bailey had been a star athlete at Canarsie Excessive Faculty, taking part in soccer and baseball.
“He took Canarsie to the championship again Within the Nineteen Nineties,” Mayers mentioned, carrying a photograph of the ‘96-‘97 soccer crew. “He received a scholarship to Trenton to play baseball, that’s how good he was…a Canarsie legend.”
Omari Barnett, 46, a supply driver, laid down on the sofa and coated his mouth after studying that his childhood pal had been killed.
“Not ‘Buns,’” he mentioned, utilizing Bailey’s nickname, taken from the character Tommy “Buns” Bundy, performed by rapper DMX within the 1998 film “Stomach.”
“I've no clue what he may’ve doing over there at 9. He normally works early morning like me, until 4 or 5 on the newest,” Barnett added.
Bailey had a son and daughter, and two brothers.
“That is the town we’re dwelling in proper now, the world we’re dwelling in. Gotta keep confrontation-free finest you possibly can,” Barnett mentioned.
No arrests have been made. The suspect, who fled after the stabbing, was described as 5-foot-7 with gold enamel.
The MTA mentioned it’s aiding the NYPD within the investigation.
“We've got already recognized dozens of cameras that the NYPD believes could help within the investigation of this mindless crime and we'll proceed to help investigators with video and in some other manner doable to make sure the perpetrator is caught,” mentioned MTA Communications Director Tim Minton.
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