NY Doctor Found Dead With Throat Slashed

A New York pediatrician, well-known in his community, was found dead in a Bronx park with his throat horrifically slashed open. The 60-year-old doctor is just the latest in the growing wave of violent crime in the blue-run Big Apple.

New York police who found the body and reported the brutal death said, “no one deserves to die like this.” 

The man was identified as Bruce Maurice Henry.

So far, no further information regarding the doctor’s death or a suspected reason behind the grisly murder was shared by the authorities. The police said that “the investigation is ongoing,” according to the New York Post.

Henry’s body was found dead on the morning of December 23. The Spuyten Duyvil resident had been stabbed multiple times, in addition to having his neck slashed.

According to the New York Post, Henry was a pediatric emergency medicine physician in the Bronx and is affiliated with the Children’s Hospital New Orleans as well as Nyack Hospital. He was found unconscious and was not responsive at around 2.15 am in Manhattan on a stairway near 120th Street in Marcus Garvey Park. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by the EMS shortly before 3.00 am.

Henry was last seen driving his car out of his Bronx apartment building garage just hours before his gruesome demise, a “shocked” longtime resident said.

The motive for the killing remains unclear, said cops, who noted they don’t know why Henry, who would have celebrated his 61st birthday on Saturday, was in the park at the time of his death.

At Henry’s Spuyten Duyvil building, a sense of horror had replaced holiday cheer. 

“That was him? Ugh! I have known him for a long time. It’s got to be 10 years or maybe more,” the stunned building resident said. “Since I’d known him, everything was all good. That’s kind of rough, wow!”

 Henry was casually dressed as he drove out of the garage, recalled the resident, who noted Henry had been living alone.

He also said Henry “worked long hours at the hospital” and “was always traveling.”

“It sucks. It really does..Nobody wants to hear stuff like this around any holiday, especially Christmas,” the resident said, adding, “Nobody deserves to die like that, especially not him. This person [the suspect] is a sicko, man.”

He was confident the killer would be caught.

“This person or group of persons that did this to him, they are going to get them,” the resident predicted. “They are going to nab them. They have cameras all over the place.”

As we have previously reported,  fatal stabbings and slashings have reportedly escalated in number by an alarming 37% in New York City as compared to 2021 amid the increase in major crimes. So far, in 2022, NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved as compared to 70 killings in 2021 recorded during the same period.