NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, March 28, 2014, 1:48 AM
A 19-year-old college student who went to a Queens barbershop to collect on a debt Thursday wound up paying with his life instead when the barber stiffed him and plunged a pair of scissors into his chest, cops and the victim’s dad said.
Carl Richardson sold a Bluetooth device to Cedric Simpson, 34, co-owner of Select Stylez Barbershop in Laurelton on Wednesday, according to the teen’s family. Simpson, they said, told Richardson to come back Thursday for his money.
But when the teen went to the Merrick Blvd. shop at about 2 p.m., Simpson refused to pay him the agreed-upon $ 40, Richardson’s family said.
The pair scuffled and had to be separated by customers, relatives said. But as an enraged Simpson was pulled away, he allegedly grabbed the scissors and stabbed Richardson three times, said the teen’s father, an MTA conductor also named Carl Richardson.
He didn’t have to reach for a weapon and cowardly stab my son.
“It’s so senseless. So trivial. Over nothing,” the grieving father said.
“He didn’t have to reach for a weapon and cowardly stab my son. They were already broken up.”
Paramedics rushed the unresponsive victim to Franklin General Hospital, where he died a short time later, cops said.
The teen, an occupational therapy student at Nassau Community College, was selling the devices to raise $ 1,500 to buy a car, his father said.
Simpson is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. He was awaiting arraignment Friday.
With Joseph Stepansky
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