A man who lost everything in a Bronx apartment fire was fatally stabbed outside the homeless shelter he landed in after the blaze, bleeding out in his husband’s arms the day before Christmas.
Arkmayer Davis, 36, had just left his husband at a laundromat down the block and was returning to the E. Tremont Ave. shelter near Morris Ave. in Morris Heights when he was attacked on the street about 11:40 a.m. on Tuesday, cops said. He made it back to their room and collapsed.
The victim’s unaware husband soon returned to the shelter to find their room covered in blood and Davis unconscious on the floor.
“I came up to him, I shook him. I tried to wake him up and I see that he wasn’t moving,” said Daris Antwan Davis, 35. “I looked at his stomach. He wasn’t breathing and I could tell you he had no pulse and he was bleeding out.”
The victim had been stabbed repeatedly in the arm, leg and torso, cops said.
“He bled out and died on the floor right there,” Daris said.
Medics rushed Arkmayer to St. Barnabas Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved, police said. No arrests have been made, and cops have not released a motive.