A dying man staggered off a packed Miami trolleybus soaked in his own blood after being fatally-stabbed by a stranger during an argument.
Adolf Bruce, 49, was seen crawling towards the front of the public transport in Miami with the red substance oozing out of him last month, as his distraught fellow passengers screamed.
Moments earlier, he’d been knifed by a man police later identified as Lamont Collins, 46, NBC6 reported.
The two men got into a furious argument when police said Collins refused to let Bruce off the trolley, and the alleged killer was seen in footage yelling at Bruce to ‘back up.’
As the confrontation turned ugly, Collins pulled out a knife, prompting the trolley driver to stop the carriage on the street and attempt to calm the two men down.
As he struggled to control the situation, the driver warned Collins: ‘You are going to jail.’
‘I’m not a coward. I’d rather die than go to jail,’ Collins responded, according to an arrest report.
The two men briefly separated from each other, before Bruce yelled ‘let’s go’, and Collins leapt forward.
Passengers screamed as the video allegedly showed Collins stab Bruce several times, with blood seen spraying out across the trolley.
Adolf Bruce, 49, is seen stumbling off a Miami trolleybus covered with blood moments before his death. He’d just been stabbed by a knifeman police say is Lamont Collins, 46
A distressing grab from the February murder shows a woman screaming in fright as the man cops say is Collins begins to knife Bruce following an argument that erupted on board
Victim Adolf Bruce, 49, (pictured) was fatally stabbed during the confrontation with alleged killer Lamont Collins, 46
The passengers on the trolley reacted in horror as they witnessed Bruce being stabbed, and he was seen staggering through busy commuters.
At that point, a visibly shaken woman raced out the front of the trolley to scream for help from the street as several other passengers scrambled away from the two men.
Collins then ran through a small gap in the trolley doors made by the woman, while Bruce was left covered in blood inside the vehicle.
Bruce also made his way out of the trolley as he struggled with his injuries, but he tragically died later in hospital.
Tributes poured in for Bruce following his senseless death, as he was remembered as a beloved member of his community in Paraiso, Florida.
Friends said he worked at a restaurant, and was a keen traveler and basketball player.
At one point in the fight, the driver stopped the trolley and warned Collins: ‘You are going to jail.’ ‘I’m not a coward. I’d rather die than go to jail,’ Collins responded
Collins was arrested soon after the incident and was charged with second-degree murder
Collins was arrested soon after the incident and was charged with second-degree murder.
He pleaded not guilty, and will remain in jail after a judge denied bond at his first hearing. His address was reportedly listed as the Camillus House, a nonprofit organization that provides housing to the homeless.
Miami Police spokesman Mike Vega said at the time of Collins’ arrest: ‘This was not a case of self-defense or him trying to defend himself.
‘He stabbed him numerous times and he knew what he was going for and he stabbed him in the neck. It is crazy over anger that this happened.
‘Always think that you do not know what the other person is capable of or doing. We have been trying to determine what was in the mind of the suspect.’
Tributes poured in for Bruce following his senseless death, as he was remembered as a beloved member of his community in Paraiso, Florida
A judge denied Collins’ bond at his first hearing, and his address was reportedly listed as the Camillus House, a nonprofit organization that provides housing to the homeless
Eyewitness Ricardo Sanchez told CBS News that seeing the stabbing was traumatizing, and initially believed Bruce was hit by another vehicle due to the severity of his injuries.
‘I pretty much saw the guy dead on the floor.
‘I don’t know if he was dead, but he was already on the floor,’ Sanchez said.
‘At first, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, he got hit,’ because I saw a scooter too, right? But then I see all the blood.’