David Williams had no reason to get stabby

[Dakota Valkyrie]

"Big Dave" stabbed 3 people and punched another...

A hulking madman was caught on tape viciously stabbing an elderly couple in their Queens apartment building, then calmly straightening the bent and bloody knife.

David Williams, 41, drove a carving knife into John Purcell and his wife, Joan, as the loving couple left their Northern Blvd. building in Flushing, cops said. A third victim, 41-year-old Juhn Fook, was also stabbed.

"Blood everywhere," an officer said.

A motion-activated security surveillance camera captured the horror.

At 9:12 a.m., Williams is seen punching Deraj Maraj, 37, for no reason. "He just walked up and started swinging," Maraj said later. "He looked like he was crazy."

Eight minutes later, at 9:20a.m., the video shows canvassing officers and Maraj entering 147-15 Northern Blvd.

At 9:31 a.m., cops leave the building. Seven minutes later, Joan and John Purcell leave the building, holding hands.

At 9:39 a.m., Williams enters the frame. In the span of a minute, the video captures Williams pointing the knife at the couple, the Purcells walking toward the street - where they eventually collapsed - and Williams straightening the knife against a railing.

The couple and Fook were taken to New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens. Joan Purcell, 71, underwent surgery and was clinging to life while her 78-year-old husband and Fook were in serious condition.

Maraj told cops Williams may have ducked into the Purcells' building after punching him. Officers searched the building and another one nearby, but didn't find Williams.

The NYPD believes Williams slipped into his building, at 147-25 Northern Blvd. Cops later took the 300-pound Williams - who was still gripping the bloody knife - into custody.

Williams, who works as a bouncer at Submarine karaoke bar in Flushing, also has two arrests in the last five years for molesting kids.

Those who know Williams, whose behavior seemed erratic at times, had mixed feelings about the local man who was raised by his religious mother.

"There will be days when he has this weird look on his face," said Michael, a close friend of Williams' who asked that his last name not be used.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._life_aft.html

Witnesses are telling New York police a combination of mental problems and a family quarrel triggered a stabbing rampage by a Queens man known as "Big Dave."

The 6-foot-1, 300-pound David Williams allegedly knifed a woman and an elderly couple as he stormed out of his apartment.

The three victims were in critical or serious condition after being stabbed for no apparent reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Sources told NYPD detectives that Williams apparently had been suffering with mental problems and his mother refused to seek treatment for him.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/...8511231948935/

[weavergroupie]

Jeebus! I can't imagine the horror of this.

I'll bet his family defends him....

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The brave Queens grandfather who tried to shield his wife from a rampaging 300-pound nut has died of a stab wound to the chest.

John Purcell, 78, passed away Friday night, 10 days after the Jan. 13 assault by bouncer David Williams, who punched one man and then stabbed the elderly couple on a Flushing street.
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Williams was charged with attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon, but those charges will be upgraded now that Purcell has died.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...hile_defe.html