NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police are searching for a suspect they said stabbed a man he thought was looking at his girlfriend at a Lower East Side park over the weekend.
According to officials, at approximately 8:10 p.m. on Sunday, July 11, a 27-year-old ma was playing basketball inside of the Luther Gulick Playground at Delancey Street and Columbia Street when the suspect approached him and accused him of looking at his girlfriend.
The suspect left and returned a short time later and displayed a knife to the victim while stating that he had 10 seconds to leave, authorities said.
Police said the suspect then began to count down, and when he reached "seven" he lunged at the victim, stabbing him in the left shoulder.
The victim sustained a small laceration and was transported via EMS to NYC Health & Hospitals/Bellevue for treatment, the NYPD said.
The suspect fled the location in an unknown direction.
Officials described the suspect as an adult man with a medium complexion, approximately 5'7" tall, weighing 160 pounds, a bald head, and a scar on the right side of his face.
He was last seen wearing a black tank top, black shorts and black sneakers.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).