Ghanaian dad stabbed to death in US

A mentally unstable career criminal with a long arrest record allegedly stabbed a Bronx father to death in what police describe as a random and unprovoked attack, according to officers and sources.

George Ennin, 53, was on his way to work as a security guard around 2 p.m. on Monday when he was suddenly attacked by a stranger and stabbed several times just a few blocks from his home.

Ennin, who was a father of two, was taken to Lincoln Hospital but later died from his injuries, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.

Police have charged Sean Jones, 38, a repeat offender with a history of violent crimes in Manhattan and the Bronx, with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the attack outside 3077 Third Avenue in Mott Haven.

Ricky Javier, an employee at Daisy’s Pizza nearby, said he heard disturbing “screams.”

“I couldn’t see what was happening [but] I saw the attacker running away,” he told The Post. “We live in the Bronx, so you basically get used to it.”

ABC 7 reported that Ennin was a devoted father of two daughters.

“This man was one in a million, he was a diamond in the rough,” the victim’s neighbor, Michele King, told the station. “He raised two daughters single-handedly.”

Jones ran away after the stabbing but was arrested by the NYPD in the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon. He was awaiting arraignment on Wednesday.

Law enforcement sources said Jones has 15 prior unsealed arrests dating back to 2012, including charges for robbery, assault, forgery and criminal sale of marijuana. He had also been named in four previous police reports involving an emotionally disturbed person.

In a 2013 incident, Jones was accused of biting a police officer during an arrest linked to a subway fare evasion case, sources said.

Police also said he assaulted a 38-year-old woman on East 166th Street and Trinity Avenue in the Bronx on March 12, 2019, stealing her benefits card before fleeing.

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office said Jones pleaded guilty to third degree robbery on November 22, 2019, and received four months of probation as a violent felony offender.

Residents in the Bronx neighborhood expressed grief over Ennin’s death.

“He was a really nice man, good father,” one neighbor who lives downstairs said. “They were a quiet family.”…CONTINUE MORE READING>>>