A subway passenger was stabbed in the back by an unknown person Friday evening as he exited the train at a Manhattan station.
The 29-year-old victim had just gotten off the Brooklyn-bound L train at the First Ave. subway station near 14th St. in the East Village about 8:45 p.m. when another passenger suddenly stabbed him in the back, police and witnesses told the Daily News.
A security guard monitoring the platform saw the victim looking confused and in pain, and someone running up the stairs to the street. Police later described the possible attacker as “an Asian male carrying a bag.”
“Someone came up behind him and stabbed him in the back,” said the guard, who called himself Samba. “He didn’t see it coming.”
“He was screaming, ‘Someone hit me.’ But then we looked and we saw all the blood.”
Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Police hoped an examination of the station's CCTV footage would help identify the attacker.
