A
memorial is growing outside a deli on Van Buren Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant
for Cynthia McLeod – a longtime resident who was stabbed to death on Sunday
morning.
Police
say they found the 55-year-old inside the deli. They say her ex-boyfriend,
James Brown, 62, is a suspect.
"She's
a sweet person. She don't bother nobody, and I don't understand why that
person killed her," her neighbor told News 12.
Jarelle
White is a family friend who says he's known McLeod since he was a
child. His family is still reeling from her death.
"My
mother broke down crying because my mother knew her and her mother. She watched
me grow up in this neighborhood so that was a shock,” he said.
The
NYPD has not released any details about the circumstances that led to the
stabbing.