A Brooklyn man, Abraham Kentish, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder for stabbing three men in separate incidents, as per the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The announcement made yesterday highlighted that Kentish, 28, admitted to the 2023 unprovoked stabbings at a homeless shelter and a subway station.
According to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, the attacks occurred on November 12, 2023, beginning at the SUS Shelter where Kentish stabbed a 70-year-old man and a 38-year-old man as they slept. He then proceeded to a nearby subway station, attacking a third victim, a 32-year-old man, with a stab wound to the neck. The victims were described as "utterly defenseless," and their survival termed a "miracle" by Gonzalez.
The sentencing took place before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Adam Perlmutter, and Kentish's plea entered on July 29, included three counts of second-degree attempted murder. The Brooklyn DA applauded the efforts of the NYPD and the prosecutors in ensuring that, "this violent defendant is being held accountable and removed from our streets," as per the press release.
Kentish was apprehended later on the morning of the attacks by two NYPD officers who noticed his resemblance to the description of the suspect wanted for the attacks, documented at the district attorney's website. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Ainissa Proctor, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Karla Watson, the Bureau Chief of the DA's Red Zone Trial Bureau.
