Police arrested a woman for the fatal stabbing of a 39-year-old man outside a historic former Bronx NYPD station house, cops announced Wednesday.
Fati Musah Sexton, 29, was charged with murder for the death of Manhattan resident Shamel Parnell on June 2, cops said. She is expected to be arraigned at Bronx Criminal Court in the coming days.
Parnell was in front of the NYPD’s former 48th Precinct station house when his killer stabbed him in the chest and neck on Bathgate Ave. near E. Tremont Ave. in Tremont around 12:20 a.m., cops said.
Medics rushed Parnell to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died, officials said
Three days later, police released a surveillance image of a male suspect — who remains at large — taken from inside a cab immediately after the deadly attack.
A police spokesman could not immediately say what Sexton’s role was in the fatal stabbing, only that she and the male suspect acted in concert during the assault.
Sexton lived just down the block from where Parnell was attacked, cops said. This is her first arrest, said police.
The building Parnell was stabbed in front of housed the NYPD’s 48th Precinct for decades but is now home to a Head Start program. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its notable architecture.
