A Brooklyn woman is mourning the loss of her son after he was stabbed to death on the campus of Cornell early Sunday morning.
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Nazaire was a sophomore studying Business Administration. He wanted to get something tomorrow that he didn’t have yesterday.
“My deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of Anthony Nazaire”, Ithaca College President Tom Rochon said.
“It’s amusing how your life can change in a text message”, Cox said outside of Muller chapel on Monday. Rochon also said that Nazaire was on the executive board of Brothers4Brothers, an organization that worked to empower men of color at Cornell. “You could always hold to him. He was one who always kept his word and was reliable”, he said.
Ithaca junior Britney Chambers recalled Nazaire as a “mama’s boy” who kept in touch with him mom back in Flatbush with regular Facetime video calls.
Both schools are offering counseling services to students, faculty and staff.
“[He] was with his friend [Raheim Williams], his friend bumped a girl by accident and he apologized”, Kiara Nazaire told the Daily News.
Two women after the vigil.
‘You take your kid out a neighborhood and you do your best to send him to a good, proper college to make something out of himself and he comes back in a body bag?’ Toussaint told the New York Post.
“There’s a significant chunk of Ithaca College that would have loved to have that ‘terrible semester, ‘” Reid said.
Nazaire, originally from Brooklyn, was a sophomore at Ithaca College and had just returned to campus after spending the summer with his family. “For this to happen where we all go to class, where we all live, it’s a shock and it’s a tragedy for sure”.
“I’ve lost friends to gang violence, drug dealers”, Young said. Anthony was a New York City native, who was attending Ithaca College on a full scholarship.
The message from President Rawlings included the information we reported yesterday, that the campus event was “a party at Willard Straight Hall sponsored by a Cornell fraternity, Omega Psi Phi”.
Local police say Nazaire was one of two Ithaca College students who were stabbed on the campus of nearby Cornell University early Sunday morning.
The other unidentified Ithaca student was treated and released from a hospital.
Although police are not able to identify any suspects in the incident, they are still interviewing witnesses and believe that someone captured the stabbing on video.
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Law enforcement officials found the victims after being called to a large fight at the intersection of College Avenue and Campus Road. “Of the many eyewitnesses, including those who may possess cell-phone videos, some have given testimony or provided videos while others have not”.
