Shocked NYC tenant fatally stabs violent ex-con burglar with own knife in struggle to disarm him: sources, report

A shocked Brooklyn tenant fatally stabbed a violent ex-con burglar with the intruder’s own knife as he struggled to disarm the stranger who had invaded his apartment, according to sources and a report.

The 45-year-old tenant appeared to have acted in self-defense when he allegedly knifed 34-year-old Dan Costume in the leg and back during a Friday night scuffle inside his third-floor apartment on Avenue D near East 31st Street in Flatbush, law enforcement sources said.

Costume — who has been on parole since 2024 after serving prison time for attempted burglary, according to public records — had first stabbed the tenant in the neck, cops said…

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