Play-Fight Ends in Fatal Stabbing in Brooklyn NY

A drunken wrestling match between pals started friendly but turned lethal, leaving a Brooklyn man stabbed to death, police said Saturday.

Marcquel McDuffy’s bleeding body was found in the stairwell of a Fort Greene building moments after his play-fight with a friend spiraled out of control, police said.

“They were drinking together and then he took out a knife and stabbed him,” sobbed the victim’s brother, Kenneth McDuffy, 24. “They had no beef before then.”

“I can’t even think straight,” said the grieving brother. “I don’t know what to say.”

Investigators are hunting for the suspect, who ran from the Farragut Houses soon after the 9:30 p.m. Friday altercation. The Daily News is withholding the man’s name.

Marcquel McDuffy, 22, spent several hours with his eventual killer in the pal’s apartment, watching TV and boozing, police sources said.

The men started wrestling — but it’s not clear why the fight took a deadly turn, police said.

“They were hanging out, joking around,” a police source said.

Suddenly, the suspect pulled out a pocked knife and plunged it into McDuffy’s head and chest.

McDuffy, who lived in a neighboring building, staggered out of the apartment but collapsed in the stairwell, cops said. He was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital but could not be revived.

The victim — whom police sources said had a few sealed arrests on his record — was attending a music production school and had dreams of a career in hip-hop, his brother said.

“He had so much potential,” said Kenneth McDuffy. “I will miss him. I love him.”

“He was a good kid [and] he had plans,” he said. “He was going to do something with his life.”
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