According to Daily News report, on Friday, detectives have arrested the man allegedly stabbed a 30-year-old health and fitness lover to death during a nighttime brawl on a bustling Brooklyn commercial strip.
Tristan Matthews, 31, was arrested on Wednesday for the Sept. 15 slaying and charged with manslaughter, gang assault and weapon possession.
He’s accused of knifing Joshua Wahhab in the left torso on Nostrand Ave. near Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 12:30 a.m.
Police and relatives confirmed Wahhab, who had just recently started two jobs, was about a mile from his home when he was killed during an argument outside a deli with four or five men and was thereafter rushed by EMS to Kings County Hospital but doctors were unable to save him.
The fatal fight left the sidewalk covered in blood.
“Man, I seen all that blood earlier and I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it,” one nearby resident who declined to give his name, told the Daily News at the time. “I pass by here all the time. It’s a busy area, but a stabbing and seeing all that blood I haven’t seen that before. It’s wicked.”
Matthews lives three blocks from where the fatal stabbing took place. He was ordered held without bail during a brief arraignment proceeding on Thursday. What sparked the fatal fight wasn’t immediately disclosed. Nor was it clear how cops identified Matthews as a suspect.
Wahhab, 30, had started working at both a gym and a Whole Foods Market just a week before his slaying, embracing a lifestyle focused on health and fitness, his heartbroken relatives said.
The 45 years old sister of the deceased, Aziza revealed that: “He worked hard all week and just wanted to relax and enjoy his evening, he was into fitness since high school, big on staying fit and healthy.
“Before heading out Sunday from the home he shared with his mother, Joshua had cooked and eaten. He told his mom he’d be back soon. He didn’t say exactly where he was going but he promised to return.
“If [the stabber] wanted food, my brother would feed him, if he needed help, my brother would help however he could. Violence was never his goal.”
Aziza said her brother would have been willing to help his killer, if he had requested for it.