NYPD responding to a call at 43-25 Hunter Street, Hayden luxury apartment building in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, just before 1 p.m. on August 1st, discovered a 36-year-old man inside an apartment with multiple stab wounds.
Police said Carlos Penzo, 36, was found with multiple stab wounds in a blood-covered bathtub. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.
Bretford Brewer, 36, of Brooklyn, was arrested at the scene. According to The New York Post, Officers responding to the building found Brewer naked, allegedly spraying security cameras with a fire extinguisher and trying to enter another apartment. Brewer has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.