A great Samaritan was stabbed for attempting to cease a thief from stealing a girl’s cellphone simply steps from Columbus Circle over the weekend, cops stated.
The violent robber, seen sporting all black, grabbed the 35-year-old girl’s telephone at West 58th Avenue and Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen round 12:50 a.m. Saturday, police stated.
The do-gooder, 39, noticed the mugging and tried to pry the machine away from the thief — to no avail, in response to cops.
The armed bandit then turned on the Samaritan, stabbing him within the abdomen with an “unknown object,” police stated.
The injured man was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Heart, the place he was listed in steady situation.
In the meantime, the unnamed phone-snatching sufferer remains to be “a bit traumatized by the entire expertise,” her mom instructed The Submit by telephone Monday, as she described the ordeal as “simply loopy.”
“She’s OK, however the gentleman who was attempting to assist her who was damage remains to be within the hospital,” she stated. “He had surgical procedure.”
“Her telephone was stolen, I do know that,” the sufferer’s mother added. “Somebody was attempting to assist her.”
The aggressor, who fled on foot, had not been caught as of Monday.
