massive police activity @ Flatbush and Midwood/Maple St. 3/1

Brooklyn man nabbed for deadly stab

BY JOTHAM SEDERSTROM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, March 2nd 2008, 4:00 AM

A Brooklyn man was arrested in the fatal stabbing of a woman on a street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens Saturday morning, police and witnesses said.

Nagibe Alhaj, 35, was arrested a short distance from where the unidentified victim was found on Maple St., police said.

She was dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital after the 10:35 a.m. attack.

Two women identifying themselves as the victim's sisters said she was the mother of four children, and a hardworking immigrant who came to New York seeking success.

The victim was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and head - and was covered in blood and barely able to speak when a local man came to her aid.

"It was tragic," said Rodney Parker, 48, who tried to help her when she collapsed near his property. "All she could say was, 'Help, help.'"

Neighborhood resident Douglas Haywoode, 64, said he heard screams along Maple St., which is filled with single-family homes, before police and emergency medical personnel arrived.

There was no word from police on a motive, although the victim's purse was lying just a few feet from where she collapsed - making a mugging unlikely.

Alhaj lives nearby on Flatbush Ave.

The dead woman's sisters said she was on her way to breakfast when she was attacked.

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