CROWN HEIGHTS — An off-duty Hatzolah ambulance worker was slashed across the back in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime, NYPD officials said.
The man, who is in his early 30s, was walking on the southern pedestrian path of Eastern Parkway between Nostrand and Rogers avenues in Crown Heights about 9 p.m. when he heard foot steps behind him and felt a pain across his right shoulder blade, an NYPD official said.
He turned around and saw a man dressed in all black running east, police said.
The victim, who works for the Hatzolah, a Jewish-run ambulance service in the Crown Heights area, received stitches for a 2-inch cut at Methodist Hospital, officials said.
The suspect was not immediately arrested, police said.
The NYPD's hate crime task force was investigating the slashing, NYPD officials said.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams plans to hold a 1 p.m. rally at 792 Eastern Parkway with Jewish community leaders to urge the swift capture of the suspect.