Girlfriend who witnessed stabbing murder of activist beau in NY gives heartbreaking speech as killer sentenced to 20 years-to-life: On the precipice of life together
The heartbroken girlfriend who watched her activist beau get stabbed to death in Brooklyn two years ago recalled that he was about to propose when he was killed — as his murderer was hit with a 20 years-to-life sentence Wednesday.An emotional Claudia Morales told a packed courtroom that she and Ryan Carson were “on the precipice of our life together” when he was randomly butchered by Brian Dowling in October 2023, just as the pair were returning home from a wedding.“We were at the precipice of our life together,” she said.“We were months away from moving in together, already arguing about hand towels.
“We attended a wedding hours before he died, having the privilege of witnessing two of my dearest friends in the world enter a life together, and we exchanged glances thinking silently the same thing — ‘That will be us one day, soon.'”She said at Carson’s wake, pals told her that he had discussed proposing.Morales remembered her slain love as “an activist, organizer, a self-described and self-proven revolutionary” dedicated to a slew of issues, including “overdose prevention and harm reduction, climate justice, bail reform, abortion and reproductive rights, police reform, prison reform — and ultimately, though he knew it was far away, abolition.”“I lack today any thirst for vengeance or retribution,” she said.“I have no sense of closure or conclusion today.”Carson and Morales were walking on Malcolm X Boulevard around 4 a.m.
on Oct.2, 2023, when Dowling confronted the couple in an unprovoked attack that quickly turned deadly.“What the f–k are you looking at?” he sneered at Carson.
“I’ll kill you!”Surveillance video footage of the attack shows Dowling pulling out a knife and stabbing Carson, who tries to run for his life but trips over a bus stop bench in front of a horrified Morales.Dowling is then seen stabbing Carson repeatedly as he lay helpless on the ground, leaving him to bleed to death on the sidewalk as he ...