Slaying suspect a grin reaper
‘No remorse’ in coldblooded actor-stab
The teen accused of fatally stabbing an actor through the heart as the victim’s wife watched in horror in Greenpoint smirked as cops led him from a Brooklyn station house Friday.
Wearing an American flag T-shirt and a tone-deaf grin, Gary Correa, 19, was escorted by officers at the 94th Precinct into an unmarked blue vehicle. The cops weren’t amused. “[His smirk] was very disrespectful. It’s despicable. It just shows he has little to no remorse,” a police source said.
Correa shook his head when asked to comment about the murder of George Carroll, 42, whom he allegedly stabbed as the Texas native and his wife were strolling home on Monitor Street near Driggs Avenue on Aug. 18.
The knife pierced Carroll’s heart and lungs, according to court documents Friday,
The accused killer and a pal were hanging out on the steps of a nearby school as the couple passed, according to the victim’s devastated wife, Christina Romero Carroll, 41.
“What are you looking at?’ ” one of them barked at the pair.
George Carroll shot back, “I’m looking” — and the men chased him down, she said.
The men punched him and plunged a blade into his chest, according to his wife and police sources. Correa, who lives in the Bushwick Houses, was arrested Thursday less than a mile from the site of the killing. He was charged with second-degree murder. He also has two open robbery cases.
“The defendant and the decedent were strangers,’’ prosecutor Danit Almog said at Correa’s arraignment Friday, where he was remanded.
The Carrolls had recently moved to Greenpoint from Cypress Hills, Queens, because they believed the that the other neighborhood was too dangerous.
Christina, who is also an actor, has launched a GoFundMe page to help cover her husband’s funeral costs. Nearly $23,000 was donated by Friday.
“George was a victim of a random act of violence and his death was unexpected,” she wrote. “George was a playwright and actor who loved deeply and passionately, He was fiercely loyal, and stood up for what was right. I love him, I’m in shock.”