Brooklyn laundromat worker stabbed to death in front of his son, NYPD and coworker say

Police said Monday they were looking for someone who fatally stabbed an employee at a Brooklyn laundromat in front of his son Sunday night.

NYPD officers responded to a 911 call about an assault at Laundry King on Neptune Avenue near East 12th Street in Sheepshead Bay around 10:40 p.m., according to officials. They found the 54-year-old father, Walid Noureldin of Bay Ridge, with stab wounds in his torso and his 19-year-old son with a slash to his forehead.

Officials said the men had been arguing with someone outside on the street and the fight spilled into the laundromat. Police said Monday they were still investigating what the fight was about.

Fellow Laundry King worker Shokh Khan said the men were inside fighting with a customer when the stabbing occurred.

“I was outside, I heard the screams,” Khan said, adding that he called 911 but was not sure what the group was arguing about.

Emergency medical workers took Noureldin and his son to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn, where Noureldin was pronounced dead and his son was in stable condition.

Khan said Noureldin was one of the laundromat’s delivery drivers who picked up and dropped off clothing in the neighborhood. Noureldin's son would bring him to work, according to Khan.

Homicides have dropped about 50% in the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Patrol Borough so far this year, according to official data. Through June 15, one other person was killed in the 61st Precinct, which includes Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend and Manhattan Beach. That was level with the number of people killed in the precinct at the same point last year, the data shows.

Separately, the NYPD was also investigating the circumstances surrounding a man found dead with trauma to his head on the floor of an apartment building in Crown Heights on Sunday evening.

Police said officers conducting a wellness check discovered the 60-year-old man around 6:30 p.m. at the building on Sterling Place between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues. According to officials, he was unconscious and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was looking into how the man died, which could determine whether police rule the incident a homicide. Officials did not immediately release his identity as they worked to notify his family.

This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and has been updated with additional information.