A suspect wanted for stabbing a 39-year-old man to death outside a historic former Bronx NYPD stationhouse made his getaway in a cab — where a surveillance camera captured his image, police said Wednesday.
Cops on Wednesday released a surveillance image of the suspect taken inside the cab and asked the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down.
Victim Shamel Parnell got into an argument with his killer before being stabbed in the neck and chest on Bathgate Ave. near E. Tremont Ave. at about 12:20 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Medics rushed Parnell to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died about 25 minutes later, officials said.
“I still haven’t cried,” the victim’s shocked mother, Sherri Parnell, 61, told the Daily News Tuesday. “I couldn’t sleep last night. I still can’t believe it.”
The stabber fled in a dark-colored cab last seen heading west on E. 179th St., cops said. Cops recovered a knife at the scene.
Sherri Parnell hadn’t seen her son for more than a decade when he was killed.
“He stayed with me a little when I lived in another part of the Bronx but he’d always be going out, coming in,” she said. “I didn’t know what he was doing,”
“When the officers came yesterday, they showed me a picture and it was him,” she added. “I haven’t seen him in some years, many years really. Approximately 12 years. But that’s still my son.”
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.
Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
