Two muggers jumped a 23-year-old man on the Decrease East Aspect early Friday — viciously stabbing him as they snatched his cellphone, police mentioned.
The violent duo, sporting all black, got here as much as the sufferer at Essex and Delancey Streets round 2:15 a.m. and went to grab his cellphone, cops mentioned.
The person tried to struggle again and the tussle ended with one of many robbers stabbing the sufferer within the torso, police mentioned.
The violent pair, each believed to be of their 20s, ran off with the cellphone, cops mentioned.
The sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
His attackers had not been caught hours later.
Robberies within the confines of the NYPD’s seventh Precinct, which covers the realm, jumped about 30% to date this yr, the most recent knowledge reveals.
Eighty-five robberies have been reported within the precinct’s confines via Sunday, in comparison with 65 throughout the identical interval in 2024.
