Police have charged a Bronx man with murder following a fatal daytime stabbing that claimed the life of a 53-year-old security guard walking to work in Mott Haven, an attack investigators say was random and unprovoked.
Sean Jones, 38, was reportedly taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of George Ennin. Authorities state that the two men were not acquainted.
Ennin, a father of two who worked security, had just returned from a month-long visit to Ghana and was leaving his apartment shortly before 2 p.m. Monday when the encounter unfolded along Third Avenue near East 157th Street. Surveillance footage reviewed by police shows a man approaching from the opposite direction and attempting to kick Ennin. After Ennin blocked the blow, the suspect stumbled, recovered, and pursued him with a knife…