Horrific moment 60-year-old man is stabbed in the neck on Brooklyn sidewalk by stranger in random unprovoked attack
- Carlos Santiago, 60, was stabbed with a knife in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
- He had been paying his respects at a sidewalk memorial at 10pm on Monday
- The attacker fled the scene as Mr Santiago squirted blood from his neck
A father of ten who was stabbed in the neck by a pill-popping attacker on a Brooklyn street is 'lucky to be alive'.
Footage released by the police shows the moment 60-year-old Carlos Santiago was brutally attacked with a knife in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, as he stopped at a sidewalk memorial to pay his respects at 10pm Monday.
At first the attacker, unknown to Mr Santiago, was seen 'laying a memorial' for a friend while drinking liquor and taking pills, even asking Mr Santiago to buy a candle in memory and to keep an eye out on his tribute.
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But as Mr Santiago was turned away from the 'grieving' stranger he was stabbed in the neck, spurting blood from a vein.
Mr Santiago told New York Daily News: 'All of a sudden, I felt somebody come behind me. I thought he punched me. I grabbed him. He fell with me. I didn't know I had a gash in my neck. He caught me in the vein.'
Footage shows the horrifying attack take place, as the assailant runs across the road towards Mr Santiago with his arms held in the air ready to strike - while the victim's friend attempts to fend off the attacker.
Footage shows the horrifying attack take place, as the assailant runs across the road towards Mr Santiago in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Mr Santiago pulled the attacker down with him as he believed he had been punched
The attacker, who had used a five inch blade, fled the scene without speaking as blood spurted from his victim on to the sidewalk.
Mr Santiago, who had been visiting a friend in Bushwick at the time, was able to walk to nearby Wyckoff Ave.-Myrtle Ave. subway stop for help with the aid of his friend, and was transported to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
Speaking of the ambulance journey there his son Carlos Jnr. said the scene was 'like a movie' as his father gushed blood.
Mr Santiago, who grew up in Brooklyn and now resides in East New York, told New York Daily News: 'This guy has to be a killer. He just came to get somebody ... The way he came to me, he came to kill me. He's probably mental.'
Images and video of the attack were released by the New York Police Department in the hope the assailant will be identified
The attacker, who had used a five inch blade, fled the scene without making a sound as blood spurted from his victim on to the sidewalk
Doctors told the father-of-ten that he was lucky that the knife had narrowly missed an artery in his neck.
He was able to return home to recover on Wednesday.
Images and video of the attack were released by the New York Police Department in the hope the assailant will be identified.
Anyone with information on the attack is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
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