A woman working at a Brooklyn laundromat was stabbed in the neck by an angry customer after she told him her clothes weren’t ready for pickup.
The 50-year-old woman worked at a 24-hour laundromat on Bath Avenue in Brooklyn.
The suspect dropped off his clothes on Monday morning and when he returned later that night, he was told they weren’t ready before flying into a rage.
Witnesses said he allegedly slashed the woman’s neck and arms before 2 p.m.
A 50-year-old woman working at a Super Laundromat on Bath Avenue in Brooklyn was stabbed in the neck by an angry customer after she told him his laundry was not ready for pickup. PICTURED: Super Laundromat in Brooklyn
Police arrived around 1:39 p.m., but the suspect had already fled the scene. He was wearing a gray shirt and white sneakers and was seen heading north on 21st Avenue toward Benson Avenue.
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information told DailyMail.com that the woman was taken to NYU Langone hospital in Brooklyn and did not identify her.
But the unidentified woman told the The New York Post She recognized her attacker as a casual customer and that her mother lives across the street from the laundromat.
Police arrived at around 1:39 p.m., but the suspect had already fled the scene.
He was wearing a gray shirt and white sneakers and was seen heading north on 21st Avenue toward Benson Avenue.
DCPI told DailyMail.com that no arrests have been made.
This comes just a month after a Jewish man was stabbed by a suspect shouting “Free Palestine” right inside a local synagogue.
The suspect, Vincent Sumpter, 22, was charged with assault as a hate crime. After an altercation on the streets of Brooklyn, he left Yechiel Dabrowskin, 33, hospitalized.
It happened on August 11, when the Israeli, who had come to the United States to study religion, was walking home after a Shabbat meal near the Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights.
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