A Brooklyn bouncer who was fatally stabbed in the neck when he stepped into a bar fight to help a female coworker did “nothing wrong,” his grieving friends said.
Laurence “Larry” Hopkins, 61, met his end on Feb. 10 after a customer at The Garden Bar and Grill on Graham Avenue viciously stabbed him in the neck — but his killer remained on the loose Wednesday, according to cops and acquiantainces.
“Larry was a good man. He didn’t do nothing wrong,” said Billy Cullum, 36, who affectionately referred to Hopkins as his uncle even though the two aren’t related. “He didn’t deserve to get stabbed like that. He just did his job, took care of the people, made sure everybody was safe. He wasn’t safe that night. His own life was taken.
“You know how people get. They drink, they get testy a little bit,” Cullum told The Post. “Larry just happened to come and tell him, ‘You gotta chill, you can’t do this. So he pulled out a weapon.”
The fight was sparked when a woman who works with Hopkins tried to squeeze by two customers who started arguing with her and blocking her path, cops said.