A subway rider was stabbed within the again by an obvious stranger Friday night time as he stepped off a prepare at a Manhattan station.
The 29-year-old sufferer had simply stepped off a Brooklyn-bound L prepare at the First Ave. subway station close to 14th St. within the East Village at about 8:45 p.m. when one other passenger immediately plunged a knife into his again, police and witnesses informed the Every day Information.
A safety guard monitoring the platform witnessed the sufferer wanting confused and in ache, and somebody fleeing up the steps to the road. Police later described the doable attacker as “an Asian man with a bag.”
“Somebody got here up behind him and stabbed him within the again,” stated the safety guard, who gave his identify as Samba. “He by no means noticed it coming.”
“He yelled, ‘Any person punched me.’ However then we seemed and we noticed all of the blood.”
Medics rushed the sufferer to Bellevue Hospital in secure situation.
Police had been hoping a evaluation of the station’s shut circuit video cameras would assist to establish the attacker.
