A Brooklyn Straphanger who had randomly cut his face open by a stranger on his way to work is angry to be a random victim on the rails.
Earlton Massenburg Jr. The horror told the post and remembered how he would nod a few minutes last Sunday when he woke up by the burning pain of his face that was cut open.
“When I opened my eyes, I saw this guy and he had something sharp in his hand and it was as if he had just finished cutting me,” said Massenburg, 31, about the bloody bustle of 9 hours on a 4 train on his way to work on States Island as an Amazon deliverer.
“I wasn’t crazy, I wasn’t in a panic – I was angry,” he said. “I think that is crazy, given that we have more cameras and police and that all.”
As he opened his eyes, he caught a glimpse of his attacker who was out of the train at Crown Heights-Utica Avenue station.
“It was so fast, but I saw that he was holding something sharp – it had to be like a razor or something,” he remembered.
He did not realize how hard he was injured until after he had warned the police and opened the camera on his phone to take a look in his face.
The cut extends from his hairline, over his right cheek, to his lip. He could not count all stitches when the mail was requested.
“It is almost everywhere across my cheek in a horizontal line. Like, the whole cheek. ”
Felony attacks such as Massenburg’s fall by 6% during transport in the first two months of this year – from 117 to 101.
But they have risen by 8%, from 95 to 103, compared to 2023, and, according to NYPD – have climbed a stunning 56% – 66 to 103 – compared to the same period in 2019.
And crime attacks – which have fewer serious injuries, but can still be to be beaten, pushed or kicked – have risen by 7%, from 274 to 293, so far this year system. In one crime, a man was beaten after an innocent knee -bowl on a train bound in Manhattan during the morning of living -work traffic in November.
The frightening attack by Massenburg was one of many since 10 February, when two straphangers were cut in separate incidents in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Cops said. Another straphanger was randomly beaten and cut in a train near the Jamaica Center stop around 15.15 February in Queens.
A 38-year-old man was beaten and robbed in the system on Wednesday, when a crowd of six thieves accused him of the mezzanine of the Canal Street N/Q/R station and then left at 4:30 am with his wallet
Just a few hours earlier, a 32-year-old man was on the J-train platform on Fulton Street-Alabama Avenue in Brownsville when a stranger he accidentally started to watch and a ‘sharp object’ started to swing, the victim on his head and finger, the police said.
In response to controversial crimes, including a woman who was deadly on fire on a stationary F-train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, police commissioner Jessica Tisch flooded the system with agents and created the quality of life to also turn small violations.
Until now, the patrols are being done in Queens, but the NYPD is planning to expand them in the city. The total crime in the subways has so far fallen by 27% this year, according to police data.
The Massenburg attacker remains loose.
He went back to work the next day and continues to make a two -hour commuting.
“I am still pretty angry with it, but I can’t only have that in my mind,” he said. “I have many other things to deal with and do.”
