A 31-year-old parolee released from prison two years ago was stabbed to death outside a Bronx liquor store, police said Tuesday.
Katrell Dixon got into an argument with his killer outside the store on Third Ave. store near E. 165th St. in the South Bronx about 10:30 p.m. on Monday, cops said.
As the clash escalated, the killer whipped out a knife and stabbed Dixon in the chest multiple times.
“He had been living in the shelter and they gave him an apartment. He said he was happy and now he is dead,” said a manager of a nearby bodega at the scene.
Medics rushed Dixon to Lincoln Hospital, but he could not be saved. He lived in Soundview, the Bronx, according to cops.
“The guy was laying down on the ground against a car. He was stabbed, bleeding from the chest, he was unconscious and he wasn’t moving,” Basilio Bellow, 57, who owns a restaurant near the scene, said. “He passed right away in an instant.”
Dixon had a criminal record with 21 arrests, many of which had been sealed, a police source said.
Cops believe he was a member of the “Billy Bad A–” gang, which is a subset of the Nine Trey Gangsters and the Bloods, although it wasn’t immediately clear if the stabbing was gang-related, the source said.
On Nov. 21, 2017, Dixon was arrested for shooting a man during a midafternoon shooting outside a Queens apartment building on 57th Ave., which is part of Lefrak City, cops said.
Dixon was spotted by a witness walking up to the victim, pulling out a gun and opening fire about 2:30 p.m., cops said. Even after the victim ran away, Dixon kept firing at him, the witness said.
The victim was hit eight times in the hand, thigh and buttocks and was hospitalized but survived, cops said. The victim also suffered a fractured femur, according to court records.
Dixon ran into one of the Lefrak City apartment buildings and chucked a .22-caliber Beretta into a trash compactor. Cops managed to recover the gun, and the fingerprints found on the weapon matched Dixon’s, who had been convicted of attempted burglary a few years before the shooting, officials said.
Cops charged Dixon with attempted murder. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to attempted assault and was sentenced to six years in prison, according to state records.
He was released on July 12, 2023, and was out on parole until next June.
His killer, who has not been caught, and a woman he was with at the time of the stabbing were last seen running south on Third Ave.
Cops were scouring the area Tuesday looking for surveillance footage that could track the stabber’s movements after he fled the scene.
Originally Published: August 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM EDT
