Ex-Con Accused of Random Stabbing Feet from NYPD Headquarters

An ex-con has been nabbed for randomly stabbing a 19-year-old man outside Manhattan Summons Court, just feet from NYPD headquarters, police said Thursday.

Marvin Dupree, 41, is charged with attempted murder and felony assault for allegedly stabbing Alan Ryvkin shortly before noon Wednesday outside Summons Court, where the victim had gone to answer a summons for a traffic violation.

Ryvkin, who lives in Brooklyn, told NBC New York he escaped the unprovoked attack with just eight stitches but that he might have been killed if the wound was a few inches in another direction.

Police say Dupree came up on the victim, saying nothing, and stabbed him in the upper back, just below his neck, before running off west on Reade St. He was caught by cops later in the day.

Summons court is inside the Municipal Building, about 500 feet from One Police Plaza.

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital then later released.

Dupree is a three-time ex-con most recently paroled in November 2019 after serving more than four years in prison for selling drugs. His earlier stints were for selling drugs and drug possession.

The assault is the second violent incident near police headquarters in less than a week.

On Saturday evening, an innocent bystander was shot to death and another man shot and wounded two blocks east of One Police Plaza, at Madison St. and St. James Place.

The shooter in that incident is still being sought.

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