Crime & Safety
Flatlands Stabbing Victim Remembered As A 'Family Man': Report
Nathaniel Thomas III, who was an active member of his church choir, was stabbed to death near his home in Brooklyn last week.
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FLATLANDS, NY — The fatal stabbing of 45-year-old Nathaniel Thomas III last week has rattled neighbors in Flatlands, who remember the victim as a kind person, ABC7 New York reported.
Thomas was stabbed to death near his home on Avenue K on August 7, police said.
"He was a family man, he was a church man. He would do anything to help anybody. He would give you the shirt off his back," Peter Jones, Thomas's friend, told ABC7.
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Shakel Moldonado, who was Thomas's neighbor, is charged with the murder and has been held without bail, according to ABC7.
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