A man went on a gruesome stabbing spree Tuesday night, stabbing two people in Queens Tuesday night in unprovoked attacks that left one victim in critical condition, police said.
In the first attack at 5:15 p.m., a 25-year-old man pumped gas into his car at a Mobil gas station on North Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park when a 40-year-old man stabbed him in the back, police sources told the Daily News. The attack was caught on gas station security cameras and appeared to be unprovoked, police said.
“He was bleeding profusely from the left side,” Rakib Hussein, 30, who works at the Mobile Station, told the News. “He was pumping gas at pump number one, and the guy walked up and stabbed him in the back.”
The victim staggered into the building where Hussein worked behind the cash register – and asked him for help, he said. “He said ‘call the police.’ When I saw how badly he was bleeding, I was in shock. I was scared. What should I do?”
Hussein called 911 and an ambulance transported the victim to Jamaica Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition and expected to survive, according to police.
Meanwhile, the freed stabber fled on foot to nearby Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue A train station, where he cut a 67-year-old man in the neck while waiting for a train on the southbound platform, police said. The elderly man was taken to Jamaica Hospital and was in critical condition, according to police.
Police arrested the stabber after the second attack; he was awaiting arraignment Tuesday night