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Police: Man Who Flipped SUV Killing 13-Year-Old Was Stabbed Over Money

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Kenneth Risher (NYPD)
Police believe the man who flipped his SUV over the curb on Pacific Street, killing 13-year-old Kira Goddard, was a loan shark who was stabbed immediately before the incident in an argument over money. The man, 44-year-old Sean Lewis, would die at the hospital of his stab wounds, not of injuries incurred in the incident, the Post reports. At a press conference yesterday, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly named Kenneth Risher as the man suspected of stabbing Lewis. "It was a dispute over money and Sean Lewis was stabbed in this dispute trying to collect money owed to him by Risher," Kelly said. Risher is still at large.

Kelly also stated that Lewis "only drove a short distance" after allegedly being stabbed by Risher, "just two or three blocks." Lewis spent a total of four years in prison on robbery and drug distribution charges, and received a $1.3 million injury settlement from a dubious injury. He bought the Range Rover involved in Saturday's accident with the proceeds.

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  • Spirit of 76

    Well, it was Shark Week, after all.

  • Gwinny

    He was a fine, upstanding person -- a family man -- whose felonies were well in the past and therefore they shouldn't taint our opinion of him. Oh wait -- he was a loan shark? Yeah, thought so.  Where are all the people singing his praises now?

  • FU Boy

    Damnit, Risher, if you got in one or two more good stabs then Kira'd be alive and all we'd have is applause for another dead criminal.

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