DEI
2024-01-18 07:37:22 UTC
Lock these damned niggers up and sterilize them whenever they commit
crimes.
The suspect in a string of at least five unprovoked knife attacks on Newcrimes.
Yorkers was caught Wednesday night, according to police sources.
Theyd raced to find a masked menace whose rampage lasted nine days
with the suspect laughing in the face of one of the victims.
Were going to find him and were going to do that with your help,
Police Commissioner Edward Caban vowed at a Wednesday evening press
conference.
Three victims were slashed on Wednesday morning, with that days rampage
starting just before 7:30 a.m. near 134th Ave. and Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
in Queens, according to cops. There, the unhinged suspect stabbed a
74-year-old man in the back while he was taking his wife to work, said
Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
The attacker runs up behind the couple without saying a word. He stabs
the male one time in his back, Kenny said alongside Caban. The victim
was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he was expected to recover.
Minutes later, targeted a 41-year-old man in the same vicinity.
The attacker came from out of the blue, said that victim, Amara
Kourouma.
While Kourouma walked to his car, the suspect passed by in silence,
Kourouma told the Daily News. Next thing he knew, he felt a sharp pain
in his back, he said.
I didnt say anything to him. He didnt say anything to me. When I pass
him, I just felt [it] in my back, said Kourouma, a professional driver.
He felt lucky that there were no serious injuries, he added.
Im feeling OK now. It didnt catch my organs or my spinal cord,
Kourouma remarked.
Between the early morning stabbings, the suspect slashed at a bodegas
windows, according to police.
Cops sought a man wearing a green jacket, black hoodie and, in some
instances, a lanyard or surgical mask. About 75 detectives were on the
case, according to Kenny. Believing the serial stabber to be traveling
between Brooklyn and Queens on the subway, extra cops were sent to major
transit hubs to keep an eye out.
Our citywide manhunt will continue 24/7 until hes apprehended, said
Chief of Patrol John Chell.
A suspect with a lanyard was arrested in Queens on Wednesday night, cop
sources said. A knife was recovered, too. The man was found through an
extensive video canvas, according to authorities.
Bruce An, owner of the nearby Jefferson Dry Cleaners, was opening up
Wednesday when the 74-year-old victim stumbled inside looking for help.
He asked me, Help! I said, What happened? I thought he fell on the
street, An, 62, recalled. He said he was walking on the street around
the corner and one young guy behind him, he stabbed him and he ran. He
was just walking down the street and behind him, bang!
The victims hands were bloody and his wound was dripping more blood on
the concrete, An said.
I thought it was just a little minor but later when the officer came
and opened (his) jacket it was full of blood, he added.
Around 8 a.m. Wednesday, the suspect got on a bus at Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
and 115th St., where another confrontation unfolded, cops said.
A 36-year-old man on his way to work asked the suspect if he could sit
next to him, and that attacker initially agreed, according to Kenny.
At some point during the trip, other seats on the bus become available
and the perpetrator asks him, OK, theres free seats now, you can move
away from me,' the chief continued. And the victim declines to move
and that starts the fight.
Both men got off at Archer Ave. and Parsons Blvd., where the victim was
stabbed once. He was hospitalized in stable condition. The suspect, whom
Caban described as a menace, fled on foot.
Just after midnight Tuesday, a 34-year-old woman was stabbed near 134th
Ave. and 158th St., steps away from Wednesdays mayhem.
The victim was walking home when the stranger, who was carrying a large
knife in his left hand, stormed up and stabbed her in the side, cops
said. Medics took her to an area hospital.
The suspect appeared to be talking to himself and spewing gibberish,
Kenny said.
Police released surveillance footage of the suspect showing him
brandishing the frightening knife.
Cops believe the same suspect is responsible for stabbing a 61-year-old
man in the kidney around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 8 in Queens.
In this incident, the suspect actually laughed in the victims face
after he stabbed him, said Kenny.
The victim was nearing 157th St. and 137th Ave. when the stabber crept
up from behind and jammed the knife into the victims lower back.
After a good Samaritan called 911, the victim was taken to Jamaica
Hospital, where he was expected to recover.
Detectives are investigating the possibility that the man is responsible
for yet another stabbing, on the J/M/Z platform at the Myrtle
Ave.-Broadway train station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday
morning, cops said. The incident took place two hours after the one in
Queens.
That victim was taken to Woodhull Hospital in stable condition, cops
said.
Raymond Coombs, 62, has lived on Guy R. Brewer Blvd. for four decades,
said until now hes never been nervous to walk the streets.
This guy is definitely a loose cannon, he said. They have to find him
pretty quickly because hes going to just escalate until he kills
somebody and thats not good at all.
Authorities urged New Yorkers to be aware of their surroundings.
In some of the incidents, hes walking behind [victims] for quite a
distance. In other incidents, hes just coming across them and stabs
them, said Kenny. Very random. Not a word was said. Totally
unprovoked.
Kourouma, one of the victims from Wednesday, voiced fear while the
suspect was still at large.
Imagine he had a gun hed kill more people, he said. He didnt ask
for nothing. Hes just a crazy guy.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/01/17/nyc-serial-stabber-sought-for-unpr
ovoked-attacks-on-strangers/