The New York Post
NEW YORK — An off-duty FDNY paramedic was senselessly stabbed to death early yesterday while trying to break up a fight in Brooklyn, Fire Department sources said.
“He was a hero. That’s the only word for him,” said his heartbroken uncle Charles Potts.
Kelvin Buggs, 21, had been partying earlier in the night when a quarrel broke out, sources said.
Buggs stepped in to defuse the situation before leaving the gathering with friends, sources said.
Then, as the EMT walked down Fulton Street in East New York at around 3 a.m., he and his friends saw another fight brewing, sources said.
He once again tried to break up the scuffle, but one of the thugs plunged a knife in his shoulder and neck, sources said. It’s unclear if Buggs knew his attacker, and there have been no arrests.
Buggs worked for the Fire Department since last July and was assigned to Battalion 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He moonlighted as an EMT for a private company to provide for his 2-year-old daughter, Kyla, his grieving family said.
Colleagues gathered at the Battalion 57 station house yesterday to honor their fallen brother.
“He only had a year on the job, but he was loved,” said a fellow EMT. “He’s going to be greatly missed here.”
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