NYC safety guard slashed by scissors-wielding maniac describes bloody assault as passersby simply ‘saved strolling’

An off-duty safety guard randomly slashed by a scissors-wielding nut job in Greenwich Village stated Friday town is “getting very, very harmful” — after the attacker “tried to stab me in my chest” and no person stepped in to assist.

Diogenes Jaquez Jr., 24, informed The Submit he had simply completed an in a single day shift and was headed to the West Fourth Road subway station within the stylish Manhattan neighborhood round 9 a.m. when he heard a crazed man shouting.

“I circled and simply noticed some man simply standing in entrance of me. He simply charged at me with a knife or a pair of scissors and simply began like attacking me,” stated Jaquez of the Bronx.

“He tried to stab me in my chest. I did my finest to dam it. Thank God I did,” he stated.

“I simply put my arm up.”

The crazed assailant grazed Jaquez’s proper forearm with the weapon whereas inexplicably hollering about revenge, the sufferer recalled.

“[He yelled] one thing like, ‘[It’s] payback! Oh, that’s what you get,’ ” stated Jaquez.

“After that he simply left.”

Jaquez stated that as he bled from his arm, he ran — hoping a great Samaritan would assist him — to no avail.

Jaded New Yorkers, together with some who noticed the slashing unfold, “simply saved strolling” and one lady merely pointed him within the course of the closest hospital, he stated.

“I used to be anticipating like no less than someone to interrupt it up, assist me no less than, however no person did,” Jaquez stated.

“They did nothing. No, they simply saved strolling.”

Jaquez finally “stumbled throughout” the NYPD’s Sixth Precinct stationhouse within the West Village and was handled medically.

He has since suffered PTSD-like signs, equivalent to worry, nervousness and hassle sleeping, he stated.

“I’m not gonna lie, now I’m sort of trying over my again each 5, 10 minutes. Even at work, I’m sort of like a little bit shook,” he stated.

“Typically I attempt to fall asleep, and I’m occupied with that precise second of him placing me.”

Police say the scissors-wielding attacker, Hassan Victoria, 45, randomly slashed Jaquez and one other sufferer within the neck on close by Hudson Road at Christopher and Bleecker streets.

Victoria was later hospitalized uptown and is awaiting expenses, regulation enforcement sources stated.

Jaquez stated Victoria’s eyes appeared “drugged up” and that town “ought to give him the therapy he wants.”

The 24-year-old sufferer stated he’s skeptical about stories that crime goes down within the Large Apple.

“For the those who give you statistics, it is best to actually come exterior and actually see how the streets are, please,” Jaquez stated.

“These numbers that you’re developing with are fully off.”

“New York just isn’t actually as secure as some individuals make it appear. … New York is getting very, very harmful day-to-day.”

Jaquez stated he now needs to maneuver to a safer space and is pinching pennies to make it occur.

“I’m going to attempt my hardest to avoid wasting up, attempt to transfer elsewhere, as a result of New York just isn’t ‘it’ anymore, I’m sorry,” he stated.

His dad, Diogenes Jaquez Sr., agreed that violent crime in the Big Apple is uncontrolled.

“It’s too many loopy individuals in New York. The police don’t have any energy to do something. One thing worse might’ve occurred to my youngster,” he stated.

“After I noticed him, I hugged him and I stated, ‘Thank God, my son, you’re OK,’ ” stated the 56-year-old doorman. 

“I inform him to be secure on the market.”

His son stated he was really apprehensive extra about his mother and father than himself.

“What would they do if I used to be gone,” Jaquez Jr. stated.