A deranged goon allegedly knocked out a sushi chef with a random sucker punch outdoors a Queens subway — leaving the sufferer barely capable of eat and considering leaving town.
“Once I felt the hit, I felt prefer it was a knife or a hammer,” stated Ferdianto Suwandi, 29, who was left bloodied and dazed after the violent ambush final week.
“Turned out that it was a sucker punch.”
The broad daylight assault unfolded Oct. 11 after Suwandi, who works in Manhattan, rolled up in a 7 prepare to Woodside Station not removed from his dwelling.
He stated he ambled down the station’s stairs, checked his telephone and obtained able to cross the highway at 61st Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue when an as-yet-unidentified man attacked him “out of nowhere.”
“I by no means stated something to him,” he informed The Publish Tuesday. “I didn’t know this man, I by no means noticed him earlier than.”
The stranger’s assault knocked Suwandi out chilly for roughly a minute, he stated.
As Suwandi regained consciousness, he stated his imaginative and prescient was blurred, he couldn’t hear correctly and a crowd of involved bystanders had gathered across the blood-stained scene.
“I used to be so shocked, actually,” he stated. “I used to be like, ‘What’s happening? Why is there a lot blood?’
“Individuals are asking me, ‘Yo, what occurred, what occurred?’ I stated I don’t know what occurred, however I simply obtained knocked out for no cause and the man obtained away.”
The dastardly criminal dashed off earlier than NYPD officers and an ambulance arrived shortly after the 4:15 p.m. assault, police stated.
No arrests had been made as of Tuesday, cops stated.
Medics rushed Suwandi to Elmhurst Hospital, the place he wanted stitches for his busted lip.
The shaken chef stated days after the assault that he nonetheless discovered it troublesome to eat.
“My lip was utterly torn on the prime when it occurred,” he stated. “The ache just isn’t as unhealthy because the day after I obtained attacked, however the emotional ache continues to be there.
“For now, I can solely eat prompt noodles, comfortable meals, porridge. I can’t get fried hen, one thing that I actually like,” he stated, chuckling.
Suwandi pleaded for presidency officers to assist cease random violence on the subways and stated he was pondering of “relocating” and nervous about ever going again to the scene of the crime.
“Individuals are afraid, together with myself,” he stated. “I’m a 29-year-old grown man and that is what occurred to me. New York just isn’t secure anymore.”
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