{"id":171158,"date":"2025-08-24T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171158\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:25:17","slug":"midtown-coffee-shop-worker-slashed-in-neck-needed-19-stitches-to-close-gash-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171158\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown coffee shop worker slashed in neck needed 19 stitches to close gash: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Midtown coffee shop dishwasher who was slashed in the neck during a senseless argument over an occupied bathroom<\/a> lost a massive amount of blood in the daytime attack and needed 19 stitches to close the gnarly wound, prosecutors said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Details about the Wednesday attack outside Moka & Co.<\/a>, an organic Yemeni coffee chain on W. 34th St. near Seventh Ave., were released as Wagner Louis, the man who slashed the 50-year-old employee, was ordered held without bail.<\/p>\n

Louis, 32, is accused of attacking the dishwasher after the worker told him that he couldn\u2019t use the bathroom because it was occupied.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was, like, \u2018Wait, wait, there\u2019s somebody in there,\u2019\u201d Moka & Co. employee Zainab Tabasi told the Daily News Thursday. \u201cAnd then that kind of turned into an argument, I don\u2019t know how.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louis allegedly made a scene and began yelling at staff when he was asked to leave the store. The dishwasher followed Louis outside, where the suspect pulled out a blade and sliced his neck during the 3 p.m. clash, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you be, like, so disrespectful?\u201d Tabasi asked. \u201cWhatever, just leave.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The dishwasher suffered two deep gashes to the right side of his neck and \u201cextensive bleeding from the neck,\u201d prosecutors said at Louis\u2019 arraignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment I saw that, I thought, \u2018He\u2019s dead,\u201d Tabasi recalled. \u201cI could literally see his veins. I thought he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

EMS rushed the coffee shop employee to\u00a0Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he was in critical condition \u201cfor several hours\u201d before finally being stabilized.<\/p>\n

Louis ran to a waiting white Honda Civic and sped off, but responding police caught him on Park Ave. near E. 33rd St. after a four-block pursuit, cops said. He was charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that Louis has three prior felony convictions, all for selling drugs. He is also out on bail, awaiting trial on an attempted murder arrest for shooting a man in the leg \u201cat close range\u201d in Brooklyn in 2023.<\/p>\n

Louis\u2019 attorney, Dean Vigliano, said that he was investigating the case and couldn\u2019t comment further.<\/p>\n

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