A subway rider was stabbed in the back by an apparent stranger Friday night while getting off a train at a Manhattan station.
The 29-year-old victim had just gotten off an L train in Brooklyn the First Ave subway station near 14th St. in the East Village at about 8:45 pm when another passenger suddenly plunged a knife into his back, police and witnesses told the Daily News.
A security guard monitoring the platform saw the victim looking confused and in pain, and someone fleeing down the stairs to the street. Police later described the possible assailant as “an Asian man with a backpack.”
“Someone came up behind him and stabbed him in the back,” said the security guard, who gave his name as Samba. “He never saw it coming.”
“He shouted: ‘Someone hit me.’ But then we looked and we saw all the blood.”
Doctors rushed the victim Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Police hoped a review of the station’s nearby circuit video cameras would help identify the attacker.