A 17-year-old boy has been charged with second degree murder after he allegedly stabbed his stepfather to death shortly after a heated argument early Sunday morning.
Alexander Singh called Alex was charged yesterday with the murder of Anthony Blair, 44. Blair was killed around 2 am on Sunday in a dark parking lot near a Brooklyn gas station, a block from his Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
Yesterday, angry relatives of the dead man refuted reports in the Monday edition of the New York Daily News about the incident, calling then untrue. The article was re published in the yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News.
This newspaper spoke with Blair’s nephew, Lancelot from New York who said that the family is contemplating legal action against the New York Daily News over the publication. He said that when contacted, the paper said that it had gotten its information from Singh’s girlfriend Deborah Umadhan.
Lancelot explained that Blair recently got a bigger apartment to accommodate Umadhan, their one-year-old son and two of her three other children.
According to Lancelot, it is Singh who has a criminal record including drug possession and not Blair as was stated in the newspaper article. It was for this reason; he said that the two did not get along. Singh did not live with the couple.
He said that on the day of the stabbing, the couple had an argument at their home which
later led to an altercation between Blair and the teen. Blair, Lancelot said, left the house to avoid any further argument but the teen followed him and stabbed him at least six times. He was dead before he reached the nearby hospital.
Lancelot told Stabroek News that persons witnessed the incident and this led to the subsequent arrest of Singh later on Sunday. Umadhan was questioned and later released.
He also disputed reports that Blair was going home from a party and that he was a security guard. The upset man said Blair left his home because of the row with his stepson and also that he was head of his department at a production studio. Relatives described Blair, who migrated to the New York some 20 years ago, as a nice man with an unblemished criminal record.
Arrangements are being made to return his remains here for burial.