Quantcast

The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.
Read the press release here.

Attackers Slash 2 Men in Separate Attacks in East Harlem, Police Say

By Dartunorro Clark | February 20, 2017 4:50pm
 The assailants randomly picked the victims and then fled the scene, police said. 
The assailants randomly picked the victims and then fled the scene, police said. 
View Full Caption
DNAinfo/Nikhita Venugopal

EAST HARLEM — Two men were randomly slashed on the street in separate East Harlem attacks, police said.

A 25-year-old reported that he was cut twice on the back of his head and neck which sitting on a metal subway vent grate on Lexington Avenue near 124th Street around 2:50 p.m. on Feb. 15, according to the NYPD's 25th Precinct.

The suspect, described as a 6-foot-1 man weighing about 185 pounds, fled down a nearby street, police said.

Two days later, A 33-year-old man was walking between Park and Lexington Avenues on 125th Street around 7:45 p.m. when a 6-foot tall man wearing a black ski mask pulled out a box cutter and slashed him in his left rib cage, police said.

Both victims were treated at Harlem Hospital.