Harlem Man Charged After Doctor's Fatal Stabbing, Bat Bar Attack: NYPD

EAST HARLEM, NY — A man who stormed an East Harlem bar with a pit bull and a baseball bat was arrested on Christmas and charged with a pediatrician's murder, according to police and reports.

East Harlem resident Roland Codrington, 35, was linked to the death of Dr. Bruce Maurice Henry — identified by the New York Post as a pediatrician — and an assault Thursday at Teddy's Bar and Grill on Second Avenue near East 111th Street, police said.

Investigators believe Codrington attacked the workers because a dispute at the East Harlem bar a week earlier left him feeling disrespected, police said.

Codrington, who lives down the street from the bar, returned to choke a 29-year-old woman worker with a baseball bat and then stabbed two customers who tried to stop him, police said.

Both were stabbed with an unknown weapon in the chest and back, police said.

After running out of the bar following the baseball bat attack and stabbings, Codrington went to Marcus Garvey Park Park, where police contend he stabbed and killed 60-year-old Bruce Maurice Henry, according to the NYPD.

The two did not know each other, police said.

Codrington is also linked to an East Village homicide that saw a man's throat slit on Dec. 19, on Avenue A near East 13th Street, police said.

The man was leaving a nearby bar when he was attacked with a knife, police said.

"Thank God we put this to an end," one senior police official said during a Monday press conference announcing Codrington's arrest.