A Straphanger from Brooklyn who made his face cut by chance by a stranger on the way to work, is upset to be still a random victim.
Earlton Massenburg Jr. told the horror of the post, reminding how he gave only a few minutes last Sunday, when he was stupid about the scary pain of his face being open.
“When I opened my eyes, I saw this type and he had something sharp in his hand and it was as if he had just finished cutting,” said Massenburg, 31, about the bloody ambush on a 4 train on the road to work on Statn Island as a Amazon delivery.
“I wasn’t naked, I didn’t panic – I was upset,” he said. “I think he is crazy, given that we have more rooms and police around.”
As he opened his eyes, he took a look at his attacker who was thrown from the train at the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue station.
“It was so fast, but I saw that he was holding something sharp – he had to be like a razor or something,” he remembered.
He did not realize how bad he was injured until he alerted the police and opened the camera on his phone to take a look at his face.
Gash stretches from the hair line, on his right cheek, to his lip. He could not count all the seams when he was asked about the post.
“It is quite a lot on my cheek in a horizontal line. Like, the whole cheek. ”
Crime attacks such as Massenburg decreased by 6% in transit in the first two months of this year – from 117 to 101.
But they are increasing by 8%, from 95 to 103, compared to 2023 and have climbed by 56% – 66 to 103 – compared to the same period of 2019, according to NYPD data.
And the attacks of the crime – which have less severe wounds, but may still include perforated, pushed or hit – are 7%increasing, from 274 to 293, to this system until this year. In a crime attack, A man was hit after an innocent hit of his knee On a train related to Manhattan during the morning ship in November.
Massenburg’s terrifying attack was one of several of February 10, when Two Straphangers were cut In separate incidents in Manhattan and Brooklyn, police said. Another Straphanger was hit by random and cut On a train near the Jamaica Center Stop around 3:15 pm February 16 in Queens.
A 38 -year -old man was beaten and robbed In the system on Wednesday, when a lot of six thieves had him on the Mezanin of the Street N/Q/R station, then left with the wallet at 4:30 am.
Just a few hours earlier, a 32-year-old man was sitting on the J Flame-Alabama Avenue train platform in Brownsville, when a foreigner who accidentally hit and began to balance a “sharp object”, cutting the victim on his head and finger, the police said.
In response to offenses with high profile, including A woman who was fatally put on In a reimbursement train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, police commissioner Jessica Tisch flooded the police system and created life patrols to collapse and minor crimes.
To date, the patrols are made in Queens, but NYPD intends to expand them worldwide. In general, crime in the subway is decreasing by 27% until this year, police data shows.
Massenburg’s attacker remains freed.
He returned to work the next day and continues to do the shuttle for two hours.
“I am still quite upset about it, but I can’t just have that in mind,” he said. “I have a lot of other things to handle and do.”