FATAL BAR STABBING LINKED TO RACE.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer

The black woman accused of fatally stabbing a white Scotia man in a city bar early Monday began arguing with the victim after being told he had been fired from a job for using racial slurs, according to witnesses and the suspect's lawyer.

Tanika M. Dickson, 22, of Emmett Street, allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed 36-year-old David Gallop twice in the neck, severing an artery. He quickly bled to death on the floor of Casey's New York Inn, police said.

Dickson fled after the attack and was arrested around the corner a short time later, police said.

The stabbing took place about an hour after Dickson and a …