BY JOE JACKSON AND JOHN LAUINGER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Originally Published:Sunday, November 21st 2010, 11:23 AM
Updated: Monday, November 22nd 2010, 2:17 AM
A Brooklyn woman was charged Sunday with killing her boyfriend - one of three weekend slayings that tipped the murder tally above last year's record low.
Nathaniel Covington and his live-in lover Joeann Hankins were drinking and playing cards in their Brownsville apartment before she stabbed him to death early Saturday, cops and his friends said.
A pal of Covington, 47, said the couple was fighting over "relationship stuff."
Dexter Weaver said that when he entered the room, his wounded friend was cowering behind a door as Hankins, 50, stood nearby, clutching a bloody knife.
"She stabbed him, right in the heart," said Weaver, 46. "All I heard was, 'Dex, she stabbed me! The b---- stabbed me!'"
Covington staggered outside of the E. 98th St. apartment building, where narcotics cops were passing by in an unmarked car. When the cops went inside the apartment, Hankins was still holding the knife, screaming, "I told you I was going to do it!" Weaver said.
The NYPD recorded 470 homicides through Nov. 14 - one shy of the record low 471 for 2009. Since then, four people have been slain, bringing the total to 474.
Covington was one of four people slain since the last statistics were released. The second was a man who was shot on Nov. 14, but didn't die until the next day. The third was Isidro Francis, 26, who was killed Friday in Queens.
And the fourth person was Shakuile Evans, 16, of Brooklyn. He died at Brookdale Hospital last night after being shot in the head in a driveway outside the Cypress Hills houses in East New York.
"He was a good kid," said Shakuile's cousin, who declined to give his name. "He didn't have problems with anybody."
With Mike McLaughlin
1 comment:
yes, I am sure he was a very good person
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