A young Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to the unprovoked killing of social justice advocate Ryan Carson in a caught-on-video stabbing that took place as Carson and his girlfriend as he walked down a Brooklyn street with his girlfriend on their way home from a wedding.

A 20-year-old Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to the 2023 unprovoked murder of Ryan Carson, a social justice activist, in a brutal attack

Brian Dowling of Beford Stuyvesant will serve 20 years to life in prison for the unprovoked murder of a Brooklyn activist.

Ryan Carson, a well-known policy advocate, was killed on a Bedford-Stuyvesant sidewalk in October 2023 in what prosecutors called a random attack.