Suspect On The Loose After Slashing Man At Bed-Stuy Subway Stop
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A man was slashed at Brooklyn subway stop, and his attacker was still on the loose late Thursday.
As CBS2's Valerie Castro reported, the victim, named John, said he had just gotten off the subway and was heading home for the night when he was attacked.
He said the suspect said nothing to him as he slashed his neck.
A large bandanna covered the long gash in John's neck, after a stranger slashed him at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, inside the Nostrand Avenue subway stop, serving the A Train, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
"I had about eight to ten stitches, the doctor said about an inch more he would have hit an artery," John said.
He had just gotten off the train and was walking up the stairs with a crowd of people when he was attacked from behind.
"I just felt a bump. I just felt something on my face. I initially didn't think anything of it, and the guy ran off," he said. "But people started saying to me: 'He cut you. You're bleeding,' and I felt my face, and all this blood."
Subway riders in Brooklyn said it scares them to know that this was a random assault.
"Yeah it does. It most definitely does," Corina Martinez said.
"I think that's crazy, bananas, I mean wow, that's, I don't know what to say to that. I don't understand why," James Callahan said.
John said his attacker ran off down the subway tracks. He said despite the ordeal, it won't stop him from riding the trains as he has for the last 30 years.
"I'm thankful to be alive, but like I said, this is New York so in a way it's surprising but at the same time it's not that surprising," John said.
Police were still looking for the suspect in the case. Eyewitnesses could only give them a vague description.
Police said the subway slashing was not related to another slashing incident in Whitestone, Queens on Wednesday, which left a 16-year-old girl wounded.