A woman who was stabbed by a madman in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve said the man came up from behind and punched her, but no one around her came to help after he put a knife to her throat.
Imani Ciara Pizarro, 26, was attacked as she got off the train on Platform 4 around 10 p.m. and headed to her evening office job at the Roosevelt Hotel, an immigrant shelter.
She was FaceTiming with a neighbor when she noticed blood splattered on the floor near the turnstile. Seconds later, Pizarro “lost consciousness” when her assailant punched her in the back of the head “with all his might,” pushing her to the ground.
The suspect, identified by police as 28-year-old Jason Sargent from Brooklyn, began repeatedly yelling at her, “What's wrong?” He then lunged at her with a small knife and slit her throat. He then kicked Pizarro's cell phone away.
Many of those who witnessed the stabbings, believed to be tourists, “just froze up.” Police were nowhere to be seen, she said.
“I wish I could travel for a living and not be attacked. I wish there were police at Grand Central when I was attacked, but there were none. I called for help. I was running and there was no one there,” she said.
“Normally there are officers in four different locations and I ran to each one and there was no one there,” she said.
“No one called 911. No one called 911 at Grand Central. It was my neighbor. I called my neighbor. I called my neighbor when it happened. and she called 911.”
She said the second stabbing victim, a 42-year-old man who had his wrists slashed, “was hurt worse than me.”
“He ran further into Grand Central and yelled, 'I hate you all,' toward the central ticket booth, as if he wanted to be caught,” Pizarro said.
She hid until her attackers fled the station, and with no one around to help Pizarro, who was bleeding from the neck, she rushed to the Roosevelt Hotel where medical staff dressed her wounds. Ta.
Officials told the Post that after Pizzaro was stabbed, a witness pointed MTA police to Sgt. He was arrested and the weapon was recovered.
He is charged with assault, reckless endangerment, menacing, weapons possession, harassment and disorderly conduct, police said.
According to sources, the sergeant has been arrested three times for mischief, fare assault and assault on a police officer.
“It's not fair. We're hurting every day. And there's nothing I can do. I can't protect myself. In the past two months, I've been assaulted two more times by mentally ill people. I'm trying to ignore them, but they don't like being ignored either,'' Pizarro said.
She said she plans to find a safer way to get to work. However, cars are much more expensive than trains.
“I want to be able to go to work without being harassed or attacked. For my safety. Now that's not possible,” she said.
The double stabbing, which occurred less than a week after a woman was set on fire on a late-night F train in Coney Island, marks the ninth subway murder this year and the first in the past 25 years. tied for the most records.
Critics blamed bystanders and NYPD officers. I took a picture while looking blankly The woman, engulfed in flames, writhes in pain and then collapses.
Tuesday's incident also marks the second year in a row that people have been attacked at the iconic Midtown Station on Christmas Day.
On Christmas Day last year, two teenage girls visiting from South America were stabbed at the Tartinary in Grand Central's dining concourse by a man who yelled, “I want all white people dead.”
