The victim, USPS employee RayHodges, is being remembered as an "honorable man" and a "great father" following the Jan. 2 stabbing in Harlem Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.
The incident occurred just after 2:30 p.m. at a deli on Lenox Avenue near West 118th Street, where the victim, identified as 36-year-old RayHodges of the Bronx, was grabbing something to eat.