Queens man, 34, accused of stabbing couple in dog pee clash released on no bail

A man accused of stabbing two neighbors and slashing his own father in a wild brawl after a couple’s dog peed on his front yard was released without bail on Friday.

Judge Anthony Battisti ordered Akeem Alexander, 34, released after he pleaded not guilty to assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon at his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court.

“I think you are appreciating the gravity of what took place in front of your house. Just going to say, that’s all I’m going to say,” Battisti told Alexander in court. “He is released.”

Prosecutors had requested Alexander be detained without bail for attacking his neighbors with what Assistant District Attorney Anne-Marie Mullany described as a switchblade.

The showdown unfolded Thursday around 11 a.m. as the alleged stabber stormed up to a man and woman, both 39, walking their dog after he saw the pair’s French bulldog relieve itself on his lawn on 229th St. near 141st Ave. in Laurelton, sources said.

As the argument continued, the accused stabber and his father, in turn, urinated on his neighbor’s yard in apparent retaliation for the dog’s actions, prosecutors say.

A brawl broke out shortly after that, with Alexander allegedly whipping out a blade and plunging it into the dog walker’s back. The girlfriend suffered a wound to her left hand.

When Alexander’s 62-year-old father attempted to intervene, he too was cut in the left hand by his son, according to cops.

A Legal Aid lawyer for Alexander told the judge at his arraignment that his client had no criminal history and claimed he was defending himself in the attack.

“The two complainants… visibly attack my client, throwing him to the ground, all captured on video,” attorney Elisha Rudolph said.

Relatives of the defendant, about a half dozen of whom watched from the gallery at his arraignment, cheered the judge’s decision to cut Alexander loose.

“God is good. God is good,” a relative said after the decision.

Alexander has worked for the city for the past eight years, another relative said.

“He’s a good man who’s never gotten in any trouble,” said the relative, declining to give her name. “They jumped him, and the woman threw the first blow. It was self-defense“

The dog walker, her boyfriend and Alexander’s dad were all taken to Jamaica Hospital after the stabbing, where they are expected to recover.

Dog feces could be seen lying within a dried pool of blood outside Alexander’s 229th St. home.

A neighbor told The News the victims routinely allowed their dog relieve itself on other people’s property.

“(The fight) was over the dog that poops on everybody’s lawn,” said the neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous. “They never pick up.”

The dog-waste donnybrook was similar to another recent clash in Brooklyn that saw a 75-year-old grandmother jumped and beaten for complaining that a dog walker was not cleaning up the pooch’s poop.

Cops have yet to make an arrest in that April 6 clash on President St. near Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.

Linda Scott was outside her home around 9 a.m. when she got into an argument with two women with two unleashed dogs.

The Brooklyn grandmom was upset that the women were allowing their dogs to defecate in an empty lot next to her property, her son told the Daily News at the time.

Video obtained by The News shows the victim arguing with the dog owner when a woman in red storms up and starts swinging. The attacker repeatedly punches the elderly victim until she collapses on her front lawn, then kicks her and viciously stomps on her face, the video shows.