A 50-year-old Brooklyn woman was stabbed to death in a horrifying random attack as she walked to work over the weekend, authorities and police sources said.
Dorothy Clarke-Rozier was on Albany Avenue near Farragut Road in East Flatbush just after 5:30 a.m. Sunday — heading to her job at a nearby Pathmark — when Anthony Wilson, 34, suddenly used a long knife to stab her in the back without provocation, according to prosecutors and the sources.
“He had no connection to her at all. It was random,” a police source said of the horrifying attack. “He was a stranger to her. No relation.”
She was not even supposed to be working the day of her attack, her heartbroken niece Natasha Campbell, 30, told The Post Wednesday.
“She was covering for somebody,” Campbell said, adding she had begged her aunt not to walk in that day because of the cold.
“She was like ‘it’s OK, I’ve got my boots’.”
Despite her grave injuries, Clarke-Rozier managed run to her place of employment, her niece said.
“She was attacked close to the supermarket and then she ran to tell her coworkers she’d been assaulted. She ran to her friends,” Campbell said.
Clarke-Rozier was rushed to the Kings County Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Anthony Wilson allegedly used a long knife to stab Dorothy Clarke-Rozier in the back.
Wilson was busted a day later and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
He “gave incoherent statements” when he was interviewed, leading investigators to believe he was inebriated, according to the police source.
Sources also described him as an “emotionally disturbed person” off his medication.
Wilson was ordered held without bail during his arraignment and required to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, prosecutors said.
He is set to reappear in court on April 8, records show.
“I wish New York was a state that gave the death penalty, because her attacker deserves it,” Campbell said.
“She did not deserve to die,” she added. “He is a monster. How could you kill an innocent person who you have never met?”
Dorothy Clarke-Rozier managed to run to her Pathmark store for help after being stabbed, collapsing in front of a coworker. Google Maps
Anthony Wilson seen stalking Dorothy Clarke-Rozier right before he allegedly stabs her.
Clarke-Rozier was an aspiring nurse who moved to the US three years ago from Jamaica and has a 23-year-old son, her niece said.
“She was a loving, caring, joyful, fun person,” Campbell said. “She was the life of our family. She was the one that gathered everyone together with her cooking… She loved to cook. Oh my God — her fried chicken and her rice and peas was really good.”
“She was like a mom to me. She raised me since I was two months old,” she added. “My family is just lost. We get up in the morning and don’t know what to do. It’s like we’re all missing an arm — like we know we used to have that arm but it’s not there no more.”
Wilson has a single prior arrest, for aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle in 2007, police said.
Married couple Sean and Sharon Wilson, who live across from the Pathmark where Clark-Rozier worked, told the Post Wednesday that they are concerned about the recent violence in the area.
“Crime has gradually been getting worse and worse,” said Sean, 54. “There are a lot more emotionally disturbed people around. We’re gradually seeing more and more people around that we’ve never seen before.”
“Just like the price of groceries, crime has gone up,” he added. “We’re more concerned about our safety. I tell my wife to be cognizant of her surroundings, especially when the sun goes down.”
Sharon, 40, said the crime has “been far worse since the pandemic began.”
“There are lots of strange people walking around here in the morning,” she said. “It’s not a safe area anymore. I’ve lived here since 2012 and crime is by far the worst it has been in that time.”
