NYPD detectives have arrested a woman sources say was romantically linked to a 47-year-old man who was stabbed to death in her Brooklyn apartment, police said Friday.
Aiesha Walker, 48, was charged Thursday with manslaughter and weapons possession in connection with the East Flatbush killing of Kenneth Brewer.
It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the fatal attack or if any other suspects were being sought. News 12 Brooklyn reported Thursday that police were looking for a man and a woman in connection with the slaying.
Brewer and Walker were romantically involved, police said.
The fatal stabbing happened about 7:50 p.m. inside Walker’s apartment on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop St.
Medics rushed Brewer to Brookdale University Hospital but he could not be saved.
Caprice Saunders, who identified herself as Brewer’s girlfriend and said she lived with the victim and his 19-year-old son in a Bronx apartment, described him as a “sweet guy” as she wondered who might want to harm him.
“He just had a grandchild. A baby boy. He’s newborn,” Saunders said. “He wanted to buy him things, but now he’ll never get the chance.”
“He’s a sweet guy,” she said of Brewer, who worked a security job. “Whoever did this needs to get what they deserve.”
The victim’s older sister, Dorothy Brewer, 52, speaking from Mississippi, where the victim was from, said the family worried when he moved to New York.
“He used to tell us about people around him getting killed and stuff,” she said, “and we used to tell him to be safe.
“And he used to tell us, ‘No I don’t be out like that — I go to work and back home.’”
The sister also said Brewer had recently travelled back home to see his new grandson.
“He was very excited about the grandbaby,” she said.
Police said Walker has two priors arrests, which both occurred last year and were connected to domestic violence. Details were not immediately available.
