New York City police have a person of interest in custody after a series of random slashings in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Odyssey Head, 27, was arrested Sunday in Coney Island for allegedly breaking into a laundry room inside a building on New York Avenue, setting clothes on fire, and damaging the washer-dryer. But now he is considered a person of interest in the three slashings that occurred over the two days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Head has four prior arrests including robbery and will remain in custody for questioning, according to police sources.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
“I mean, he tried to kill me”\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 56-year-old victim declined to appear on camera or to give his name out of concern for his safety.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
“I mean, he tried to kill me,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man told CBS News New York that he was attacked around 7 a.m. Sunday while walking on Newkirk Avenue. He said his attacker did not say anything to him before the slashing, and he was unable to get a look at him.<\/p>\n
“It’s like this guy came from nowhere … hiding somewhere,” the man said. “It’s not like someone who asked me for money or a dollar, nothing.”<\/p>\n
He needed over a dozen stitches on his neck as a result of the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“What I would say to the state is do your job. There’s people that cannot be on the street like that,” he said.<\/p>\n
Additional random slashings<\/p>\n
The two other slashing incidents happened Saturday morning, with one 53-year-old man receiving a gash to the left side of his face at the corner of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue. The other victim was a 37-year-old man who was slashed in the face on the Northbound Q platform at the Cortelyou Road station.<\/p>\n
Both victims were taken to Kings County Hospital. They remain in stable condition. Their identities have not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City police have a person of interest in custody after a series of random slashings in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":336877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,4219,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-336876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115448213904774759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}