Queens Mother Attacked While Walking to Bus Stop

A mother of three from Queens was randomly attacked by a masked individual while heading to a bus stop early Monday morning. Following the incident, she expressed feeling “terrified to go home” while recovering in the hospital.

At about 6:20 a.m., Lisette Lamares, 29, was crossing the street near 23rd Street and 94th Street in East Elmhurst when a man inexplicably began assaulting her, according to both her account and police reports.

“I was just waiting for the light to change so I could walk,” Lamares recalled in a phone interview from her hospital bed. “As I was waiting, out of nowhere, a man suddenly slashed me twice. I screamed, and he hesitated, almost like he was about to just walk away.”

“Then I screamed again, and he did it again,” she recounted, mentioning that her attacker slashed her four times without uttering a single word.

“It’s strange—he didn’t say anything,” Lamares reflected. “He didn’t take anything from me, either.”

Despite her cries for help, bystanders appeared hesitant to assist her. “I went up to a woman nearby,” she said. “She didn’t even try to help. She just looked at me while I was crying and screaming. Eventually, a man walked by with his dog but didn’t say a word. It was a relief when he called 911.”

Ramares was quickly taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she received stitches and stayed for several hours. Her most severe injury was a wound on her back, which resulted in broken ribs.

She has children aged 3, 11, and 14. While she used to feel safe walking her older kids to school in what she believed was a calm neighborhood, her perspective has shifted. “Honestly, I’m scared to go home,” she admitted. “If you’re going to work, it seems safer when the sun is shining.”

So far, there have been no arrests connected to this incident of random violence.

This attack occurred less than a day after a separate incident in which a 27-year-old deli worker at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal was slashed in the face during another unprovoked attack on Sunday morning. According to authorities, as the victim walked inside the terminal around 7:20 a.m., Osiris Brown, 29, stabbed him once in the right side of his face with a knife.

The deli worker was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was confirmed to be in stable condition.

Police have arrested Brown, charging him with multiple offenses including assault, resisting arrest, trespassing, and possession of a weapon.