NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A tourist was stabbed by a man in an unprovoked, broad-daylight attack on a busy sidewalk near Times Square, police said Monday.
The victim—a 36-year-old woman—was walking on Eighth Avenue, near West 43rd Street, in Midtown around 6 p.m. Saturday when the man suddenly attacked her, according to police.
Surveillance video shows a man sitting on a walker-wheelchair outside a deli moments before brandishing a knife and lunging at a woman walking by. She was stabbed in the chest, police said.
The victim was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue for treatment.
A 61-year-old suspect, Cyril Destin, was arrested by police minutes after the stabbing.
Charges against him were pending as he underwent a psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue, police said Monday.
Destin has been arrested more than a dozen times over the past two years for mostly low-level offenses, according to CBS New York, which reported he was living in supportive housing in the area.