Man is stabbed near Manhattan's Penn Station and the knifeman crashes his car into a wall while fleeing as summer of violence rumbles on
A victim was stabbed in the stomach in a tourist-heavy area near Penn Station on Saturday before the suspect then allegedly fled in an SUV which crashed.
The victim, whose identity was not revealed, was slashed by the armed suspect around 3 p.m. near 35th Street and 8th Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, a spokesperson for the NYPD told
The suspect and victim had been in a dispute before the slashing, police said.
Afterwards, the suspect fled in a car that crashed into a wall before slamming into a building just a few blocks over at West 39th Street and 8th Avenue. The driver then fled again on foot and cops are still searching for him.
A victim was stabbed in the stomach in a tourist-heavy area near Penn Station on Saturday before the suspect then allegedly fled in an SUV which crashed
The suspect and victim had been in a dispute before the slashing, police said
A security worker who witnessed the crash said in a video uploaded to the Citizen App that he had to dive for safety between two cars
The condition of the victim was not immediately known, according to police.
Video footage from the scene shows the airbags in the black Nissan Pathfinder with Florida license plates deployed.
The NYPD gave a description of the suspect to Citizen App, describing him as a black man around 5'7" tall wearing a black T-shirt with a white circle logo on the front and another logo on the back - as well as blue jeans and black-and-white sneakers.
A security worker who witnessed the crash said in a video uploaded to the Citizen App that he had to dive for safety between two cars.
'When I look, I see a vehicle coming towards me. It was going so fast I jumped between those two cars,' the man said.
The security worker said in the video that the man had been driving on the sidewalk before the crash.
The Saturday slashing comes amid a recent spike in violent crimes in the Big Apple, including another man who was slashed in the head on a subway platform in Times Square on Friday night.
The man, 35, was waiting for a 1/2/3 train just before 7 p.m. before the brazen attack in the Big Apple's busiest station, according to the New York Post.
The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to recover, police told the outlet.
The gunman, (pictured) dressed in a black sweatshirt, black pants and white sneakers, is seen running in the opposite direction
Pictures taken outside the subway station show the victim with a heavily bandaged face being taken to an ambulance by EMTs.
The man's face and clothing can be seen covered in blood, while pictured from inside the subway station show pools of blood on the floor.
Further details about that stabbing were not immediately known.
Earlier on Friday, surveillance footage captured a daylight shooting just one block away from NYPD headquarters in the Manhattan neighborhood of Two Bridges.
Cops said that the bullet missed the intended target and instead hit a 46-year-old man who was sitting on nearby steps at the Alfred E. Smith Houses. The intended target then runs away with a small dog following behind him.
The victim heard the shot and felt pain in his left arm before he then took himself to a local hospital for treatment.
The gunman was dressed in a black sweatshirt, black pants and white sneakers and was seen on video running in the opposite direction.
Since the spring of 2020 the number of shootings in NYC has soared: Through June 6, there were 181 homicides in New York City, up from 121 in the same period in 2019, an increase of 50 percent.
That's the worst start to a year since 2011.
At least 687 people were wounded or killed by gunfire through June 6. More than 2,400 people were shot during the same period in 1993.
And it is the highest number for a winter and early spring since 2000.
Earlier this week, former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton warned American cities, including New York City, are in for a 'very, long dangerous summer' as murder rates have skyrocketed
And there aren't any short- or long-term answers, Bratton told CNBC's Shepard Smith on Monday.
New York City former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton warned New Yorkers to be ready for a long, dangerous summer'
'Unlike the last crime epidemic that took decades to build up to the early '90s, this one has occurred, literally, overnight,' Bratton said.
'It's like the virus, it's literally, out of nowhere, and so solutions are not immediately apparent.'
Bratton, who earned the nickname 'supercop' for helping clean up the streets of New York City and Los Angeles, issued his warning on Monday as NYPD data showed shootings and murders in the Big Apple have increased by almost 70 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
In May, Governor Andrew Cuomo called the surge in violent crime a 'major problem' and said unless the NYPD gets a handle on it soon, the city would become undesirable.
'New Yorkers don't feel safe and they don't feel safe because the crime rate is up. It's not that they are being neurotic or overly sensitive - they are right.' he said.
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