Disturbing new video shows the moment a big-hearted activist and talented poet was randomly stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend – who desperately tried to get help in the aftermath of the harrowing attack in Brooklyn.
Ryan Carson, 32, and his girlfriend can be seen sitting on a bus stop bench in Bedford-Stuyvesant and speaking with his girlfriend as the two made their way home from a wedding on Long Island just before 4 a.m. on Monday, according to the surveillance footage.
Wearing a gray suit, Carson and the young woman, dressed in a blue, sleeveless gown, get up and begin to walk down the block, in the same direction as a man in a dark colored sweatshirt who had just strolled past the pair at the B38 bus stop, with his hood up over his head and his hands in his pockets.
Just feet ahead of them, the stranger begins kicking scooters parked near the curb for no apparent reason, the footage – obtained by The Post on Tuesday – shows.
Suddenly, the unhinged man turns to Carson and seethes: “What the f–k are you looking at?”
The beloved community activist can be seen stepping between his girlfriend and the irate stranger, who begins to advance on the couple.
“I’ll kill you!” the maniac threatens as Carson pleads with him to “Chill! Chill!” and holds up his hand.
But the attacker pursues Carson, pulling a knife, as the victim’s girlfriend is heard frantically yelling “Please, please, please!”
As he runs, Carson tumbles over the bench the couple had earlier been sitting on. The assailant then grabs his jacket and knocks him onto the ground, savagely stabbing him multiple times in the chest.
He then walks away as Carson lies curled up on the ground, before returning and approaching the terrified woman, who raises her hand to stop him.
The sicko spits on her before kicking Carson’s mortally wounded body and storming away.
A woman appears near the corner of the frame, yelling, “Don’t hurt him!” at the assailant and repeating what sounds like the name “Ryan.”
“I’m so sorry!” the same woman exclaims as she approaches Carson, still lying on the sidewalk, as his worried girlfriend stands at his side.
“Go watch him,” the girlfriend directs the woman, while pointing at the attacker.
“I’m calling 911,” she can be heard saying.
The video cuts off as the girlfriend kneels over her loved one’s body, gently moving his arm that had been hanging over his face.
Carson’s girlfriend held the gravely injured man in her arms before he was rushed to Kings County Hospital Center, where he could not be saved, according to cops and sources.
Carson – who came to the Big Apple from the Boston area in 2010 to attend Pratt Institute – was a senior solid waste campaign manager at the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), according to his LinkedIn.
His activism focused on sustainability and environmental policies, friends told The Post.
In a statement, NYPIRG called Carson “a beloved staffer, colleague and friend, and a creative, talented, relentless and upbeat advocate for students and the environment.”
“His engaging personality, hearty laugh and wide-ranging intelligence were keys to his success in advancing the causes he deeply cared about in his work and personal life,” the organization said of their dedicated employee. “Ryan was a consummate team player who would happily undertake the basic ‘blocking and tackling’ tasks necessary to advance and win on an issue, but also shined in the spotlight as a leader, campaign manager and spokesperson.”
Carson’s friend and roommate Tom Krantz, 31, said Monday that it was remarkable “how much [Carson] actually did for the entire city and for his friends.
“He’s really… like the epicenter of an entire community that he created, that he brought together.
“I don’t think anyone is exaggerating when they say he would give the shirt off his back,” the roommate added. “He was the guy that bent over backward time and time again to be there with his friends.”
He once walked 500 miles across New York “to raise awareness to pass legislation for the institution of the first overdose prevention facility in the state,” friend and former classmate Alex Harristhal, 29, said.
Carson was also a published poet – who once penned a poem called “Anxiety” about fears over his own death – namely about the “inconvenience” his passing would cause others.
“That it could come while someone waits for me, that I couldn’t call to let them know I was held up,” he wrote in the poem.
Acadia Cutschall, 32 — who attended school with Carson, volunteered with him and called him her “best friend” — went to his stoop to mourn his death Monday.
“I was present once when he literally talked a guy out of mugging him,” Cutschall said. “He gave him some money.”
If Carson had the opportunity, he may have even lent a hand to the man who took his life, according to Cutschall.
“He would probably help out a guy like that,” she said.
No arrests had been made in the heinous crime by Tuesday afternoon.