A field cutter-wielding Mercedes driver slashed a 60-year-old bike-riding dad who confronted him for practically hitting his son on the Higher East Facet this week, cops and sources stated.
The sufferer and his son have been using within the bike lane at East 97th Road and First Avenue round 6 p.m. Wednesday when the motive force of a black sedan made a left flip, practically placing the son, cops stated.
The indignant dad began yelling on the motorist – who then bought out of the Mercedes and continued the verbal conflict earlier than slashing him on the face and neck with the boxcutter, authorities and sources stated.
The injured sufferer walked himself to the close by Metropolitan Hospital, the place he was listed in steady situation.
The armed driver then bought again in his automobile and took off, heading west on East 97th Road, police stated.
Cops are nonetheless on the lookout for the suspected slasher, believed to be a slim man in his late 30s with a darkish complexion, standing about 6-foot-1, sporting a inexperienced shirt.
The startling assault occurred within the confines of the NYPD’s twenty third Precinct, the place 288 felony assaults have been reported to date this yr by Sunday, in accordance with the newest information out there.
That’s a few 10 % dip from the 320 such assaults tallied within the precinct’s confines throughout the identical interval in 2024.
