A shouting maniac stabbed a straphanger watching Netflix in an unprovoked assault on board a Brooklyn prepare Tuesday evening – and now the sufferer says he’ll assume twice earlier than taking the subway once more.
The 32-year-old sufferer was watching a present on board a northbound Q prepare at Park Place and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope simply after 11 p.m. when the stranger out of the blue lashed out, based on the sufferer and sources.
“I used to be coming dwelling from work, to Astoria,” the sufferer, who didn’t need his identify used, instructed The Publish in Spanish. “I used to be watching a present on Netflix. Then a man got here into the prepare and began to yell issues at me.
“I didn’t pay any consideration to him as a result of I assumed he was loopy,” the rider added. “However then he hit me, he stabbed me with one thing within the chest and my arm.”
The injured man was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, the place he obtained two stitches in his arm and two in his chest.
The sufferer, initially from Mexico with a spouse and youngsters again dwelling, stated the assault left him afraid to journey the subway.
“I had by no means seen something like that,” he stated. “I didn’t consider it was taking place … I had by no means had something like that occur to me.”
“The reality is I’m scared.”
The suspect fled onto the road after the assault and was nonetheless on the unfastened Wednesday.
The random assault got here hours after a teen lady was slashed within the face inside a Bronx subway station, cops stated.
The 17-year-old lady was knifed on the left facet of the face contained in the 161st Avenue-Yankee Stadium subway station round 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities stated.
She was taken to Harlem Hospital the place he was listed in secure situation.
The circumstances main as much as that assault are unclear as a result of the younger sufferer was uncooperative with investigators, sources stated.
Video launched by the NYPD Wednesday reveals the still-at-large assailant passing by the emergency exit gate of the station.
Anybody with info on the crimes is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public also can submit their suggestions by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
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