NEW YORK — A man stopped by police in a stolen Mercedes-Benz in the Bronx has been charged with randomly stabbing to death of a doctor in a Harlem park, fatally slashing a stranger’s neck on a Lower East Side sidewalk, and stabbing two customers inside an East Harlem bar — all part of a vicious, unhinged spree over several days that ended with the suspect’s Christmas Eve capture.
Detectives working through the holiday rush connected the bloody dots linking the two murders with the separate knife attack at a pub to suspect Roland Codrington, 35, who was finally in handcuffs late Saturday night.
“Because of the work of the absolutely greatest detectives in the world, and with the extraordinary aid of the officers who were on patrol who work tirelessly to keep New Yorkers safe, the women and men of the NYPD have once again shown their resolve to bring to justice a perpetrator and stop a crime pattern,” said police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
