Victim stabbed in the STOMACH in tourist-heavy area near New York's Penn Station - before the knifeman's car crashed into a wall and he RAN off
- The victim, whose identity was not revealed, was slashed by the armed suspect around 3 p,m. near 8th Avenue and 35th Street
- A spokesperson for the NYPD told DailyMail.com that the suspect and victim had been in a dispute before the slashing
- Afterwards, the suspect fled in a car that crashed into a wall before slamming into a building just a few blocks over
A victim was stabbed in the stomach in a tourist-heavy area near Penn Station on Saturday before the suspect then allegedly fled in an SUV which crashed.
The victim, whose identity was not revealed, was slashed by the armed suspect around 3 p,m. near 35th Street and 8th Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, a spokesperson for the NYPD told DailyMail.com.
The suspect and victim had been in a dispute before the slashing, police said.
Afterwards, the suspect fled in a car that crashed into a wall before slamming into a building just a few blocks over at West 39th Street and 8th Avenue. The driver then fled again on foot and cops are still searching for him.
A victim was stabbed in the stomach in a tourist-heavy area near Penn Station on Saturday before the suspect then allegedly fled in an SUV which crashed
The suspect and victim had been in a dispute before the slashing, police said
A security worker who witnessed the crash said in a video uploaded to the Citizen App that he had to dive for safety between two cars
The condition of the victim was not immediately known, according to police.
Video footage from the scene shows the airbags in the black Nissan Pathfinder with Florida license plates deployed.
The NYPD gave a description of the suspect to Citizen App, describing him as a black man around 5'7" tall wearing a black T-shirt with a white circle logo on the front and another logo on the back - as well as blue jeans and black-and-white sneakers.
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A security worker who witnessed the crash said in a video uploaded to the Citizen App that he had to dive for safety between two cars.
'When I look, I see a vehicle coming towards me. It was going so fast I jumped between those two cars,' the man said.
The security worker said in the video that the man had been driving on the sidewalk before the crash.
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