CROWN HEIGHTS — Police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing of a man who had been released from Rikers Island the day before, sources and the NYPD said.
Maxwell Gouveia, 40, has been arrested for the murder of 30-year-old Jashwa Faulkner, whose neck was slashed inside 97 Brooklyn Ave. near Dean Street in Crown Heights on April 18, police said.
Gouveia lives in the building where he attacked Faulkner after the men had an argument, police said. He was arrested after a witness told police they saw Gouveia walking with a chef’s knife and trailing “a red liquidly substance” in a hallway inside the Brooklyn Avenue apartment building shortly after the crime took place, court documents show.
Gouveia was arraigned on a second degree murder charge Sunday and held without bail, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
Faulkner had just been released from Rikers Island jail the day before the stabbing took place, sources said. He had been held for six days between April 11 and 17 for an armed robbery in Bedford-Stuyvesant on April 1, according to sources.
The homicide was the first so far this year in the 77th Precinct, crime statistics from the NYPD show.
