Bronx man ‘just bugged out,’ killing friend after drinking, smoking K2, survivor says

A night when three friends were hanging out together in a Bronx apartment abruptly turned into a bloodbath when two men were stabbed, one fatally, the surviving victim told the Daily News.

Nurdeen Doizer, 39, Tyquan McBride, 33, and Joel Algarin, 48, were hanging out together, smoking synthetic marijuana and drinking in a third-floor apartment on E. 162nd Street near Courtandt Avenue in Melrose on Nov. 8 around 11:25 p.m. when McBride suddenly went on a rampage, stabbing Algarin in the neck and cutting Doizer multiple times on the arm.

“We were smoking K2 and drinking. We were at Tyquan’s apartment,” said Doizer, who had his right arm wrapped and stitches on his face, as he spoke to the Daily News from his apartment in the same building.

“(Tyquan) was cooking food. He started stabbing us with the knife. He didn’t say anything, he just ran away.”

“I got cut off and Joel was on the ground, and Tyquan started running away,” Doizer said. “Tyquan always drank too much.”

Algarin died instantly. EMS transported Doizer to Lincoln Hospital where he was in stable condition.

Police caught up with McBride and took him into custody at the scene. He was charged the next day with murder, manslaughter, attempted murder and weapons possession, police said.

Doizer said Algarin, who lived on the seventh floor of the building, frequently cut his and McBride’s hair.

“Joel was a very good guy,” he said. “He cut our hair, he was like our personal barber.”

A makeshift memorial made of unlit candles was erected for Algarin, nicknamed Joey, after his death.

“He came from the shelter but he was a cool guy,” a neighbor who lived in the building said of the victim. “He would come to me when he was collecting bottles, so I would help him.”

The neighbor said it was “only a matter of time” before something like this broke out between the three, saying they drank frequently and started fighting.

In addition to alcohol consumption, the effects of K2, also called “spice,” can be unpredictable, sometimes causing psychosis and violent behavior.

“One of them was stabbed in the neck, the other in the arm, there was blood in the stairwell and in the detectives,” the neighbor said. “It was a crime scene.”

McBride was arraigned Thursday in Bronx Criminal Court and ordered held without bail.

He is due back in court on December 15.