A silent maniac randomly stabbed a person within the again on a Manhattan avenue, cops mentioned Wednesday – because the sufferer mentioned he by no means noticed something like this in his native Turkey.
The 46-year-old immigrant and New Jersey resident had simply completed work and was headed to the Port Authority Bus Terminal when the attacker struck with out uttering a phrase on the nook of Eighth Avenue and West forty ninth Road in Hell’s Kitchen at round 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday.
“He simply got here and hit me [on] my again,” the still-hospitalized sufferer informed The Submit in a telephone interview. “It was a homeless man. He hit me and I simply crossed the road. I attempted to steer clear of him and I noticed the blood and referred to as 911 immediately.”
The attacker, who continues to be on the free, appeared “fairly calm” as he casually strolled away uptown.
“I laid down and I used to be watching him,” the wounded man mentioned. “It was loopy.”
The sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital, the place he needed to endure surgical procedure at 2 a.m. Wednesday – however fortunately the knife wound stopped on the muscle, and spared his lungs or liver, he mentioned.
The assault left the sufferer apprehensive about security on the town’s streets after 20 years dwelling right here as he issued a warning to New Yorkers.
“This might occur to anybody. I simply handed there,” he mentioned.
“I lived in Istanbul. I lived in Izmir. I by no means seen something like this. It’s loopy,” he added.
The menace, described as having a darkish complexion and standing about 6-feet tall, was final seen sporting a beige shirt, black pants and white sneakers, authorities and sources mentioned.
He had not been caught by Wednesday.
The assault got here on the heels of one other unprovoked knifing Monday morning, additional downtown.
In that case, ex-con Demitri Marshall, 32 – who was free to stroll the streets regardless of a separate transit knife assault – allegedly slashed a 27-year-old stranger at random simply exterior the East Broadway subway station.
