A straphanger who was slashed in a random transit assault in Queens recounted the bloody assault to The Publish on Monday — saying bystanders didn’t raise a finger to assist.
“The blood is coming down my face and I'm screaming for assist,” Hector Hernandez, 36, recalled from his dwelling in Brooklyn, a day after the horrifying incident.
“No person helped me.”
Hernandez, a development employee from Guatemala, mentioned he fell asleep on his approach dwelling from a job on Staten Island round 1 a.m. Sunday and missed his cease — as an alternative getting off the prepare on a southbound F prepare platform on the Kew Gardens/Union Turnpike station.
“He was on the identical prepare as me,” Hernandez mentioned of his attacker. “On the steps he says, ‘Yo! Give me your cash! Your pockets. Your telephone.'”
Hernandez mentioned he pleaded, “No, c’mon. I've no cash. That is simply garments within the bag.”
However the stranger continued, ordering him to “Give me the f—ing cash! Give me the f—ing telephone!” he mentioned.
“He comes at me with a knife. He had a giant knife, silver, 8 inches lengthy. He tried to get me down on the ground, however I don’t let him. I inform him, ‘Cease!'” Hernandez recalled.
The assailant then slashed Hernandez, he mentioned.
“I scream for assist, I can see folks. I'm not alone, however after I’m screaming for assist, no one comes,” Hernandez mentioned.
“I didn’t get off the prepare alone,” he added. “There have been folks. I see folks after I’m screaming for assist, however no one helped me. They only look and transfer again.”
Hernandez mentioned the brute, who stays on the free, didn’t get the $25 he had on him however left him with extreme gashes to his head, face and proper hand.
He was handled at Jamaica Hospital and wanted staples to shut the nasty wound to the highest of his head, he advised The Publish.
Hernandez, who mentioned he sends a lot of his earnings to assist his spouse and 15-year-old daughter make ends meet again in Guatemala, mentioned he now has bother sleeping.
“I don’t sleep all evening,” he mentioned. “I took the tablets for the ache however I can really feel each place I acquired harm, so no sleep. The physician mentioned I used to be fortunate as a result of it was so near my left eye. He mentioned I've to remain dwelling a number of days, however I would like to return to work. My household wants the cash proper now.”
The ordeal has left him “actually, actually scared,” Hernandez added.
“That is the primary time something like this occurred,” he mentioned. “However what can I do? I nonetheless must work … I don’t carry a knife or something to guard [myself]. I can’t get arrested.
“I don’t know,” he mentioned. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
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