A newly released video shows the shocking moments when a man was accidentally stabbed on the Upper East Side on Thursday.
In a 16-second video tweeted on Saturday by New York police, an attacker dressed entirely in black, with a face covered in a balaclava mask, is shown getting off a motorcycle before swinging at a 29-year-old stranger with a large knife.
The video shows the victim – wearing a baseball cap and white mask and carrying a brown paper bag – trying to escape the man with a knife by moving away from him. The assailant then swung his weapon frantically as he chased him off the sidewalk and onto the road, footage showed.
During the attack, filmed by the camera in broad daylight, the wounded man was cut several times in the back and left arm, according to police. Cops said the victim did not know the killer.
The stabbing took place on the sidewalk near the entrance to the subway on East 63rd Street and Q and F Third Avenue Railways shortly before 2 p.m., police said Thursday.
The suspect was driving a black electric motor when he stabbed the victim. DCPI. The attacker’s face was covered with a balaclava mask. DCPI The victim is seen trying to escape from the man with a knife, moving away from him. DCPI The assailant then swung his weapon wildly, stabbing the victim several times in the back and left arm, video shows.
New York police are looking for the attacker, whom the department said on Friday was about 30 years old, with an average physique. He was riding a black electric motor when he stabbed the victim without provocation and fled the scene in an unidentified direction, police said.
Police said medics took the victim to a nearby hospital, where he is in stable condition.
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