An owner of a dance studio is having to defend her name and reputation after the business she worked so hard to build turned into a crime scene early Sunday morning.
Kyaisha Max-Macarthy and her husband have been in the dance industry since 2010. The couple spent time on Sunday cleaning up their dance studio in Crown Heights, where they’ve been for about three years.
“Service is something that’s very, very important to me and giving back to my community – and this is what my community gave back to me?” said Max-McCarthy.
Police responded to the studio at 1493 Park Place just after midnight after four men in their 30s were stabbed inside the business.
“This was a private event, had nothing to do with our young people,” said Max-McCarthy.
In just five days, students were scheduled to start a new semester of classes, but because of what happened, Max-Macarthy, who goes by “Coach K,” isn’t sure what will happen next.
Max-Macarthy says her husband from time to time rents out the space to bring in extra money to make ends meet, but an incident like this has never happened to them before. The event was a referral for a private party that had nothing to do with the dance academy, Max-Macarthy said.