The longtime girlfriend of a man found stabbed to death in the lobby of her Brooklyn NYCHA building has been arrested for his slaying, police said Monday.
Kaydene Martin was busted Sunday and charged with manslaughter and weapon possession for the slaying of 47-year-old Donald Nesbit.
Martin, 40, allegedly stabbed Nesbit multiple times times in the back about 5:40 a.m. Saturday in her building, part of the Roosevelt Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Nesbit, who lived in Coney Island, died at the scene. His family was told by cops he was stabbed inside her eighth-floor apartment on Marcus Garvey Blvd. near Dekalb Ave. before collapsing in the ground-floor lobby.
The killing capped an often-contentious relationship between the suspect and victim.
A law enforcement source said Nesbit in July 2012 was arrested for punching the girlfriend in the face. The case was later sealed. More than two years later, in December 2014, the source said, Nesbut was arrested for a domestic incident in which Martin was robbed. That arrest was also later sealed.
Nesbit’s slaying left residents of the building rattled. A man living across the hall from his girlfriend’s apartment spoke to a reporter briefly through his closed door, saying he was scared to come out.
“Yes, that’s why I’m not opening the door,” said the man, who called the killing “unacceptable.”
“It shouldn’t occur,” he said.
The slaying is the first this year in Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct, which saw four homicides in all of 2024, according to NYPD statistics.