NYC security guard slashed by scissors
Greenwich Village NY July 31 2023 An off-duty security guard randomly slashed by a scissors-wielding nut job in Greenwich Village said Friday the city is “getting very, very dangerous” — after the attacker “tried to stab me in my chest” and nobody stepped in to help.
Diogenes Jaquez Jr., 24, told The Post he had just finished an overnight shift and was headed to the West Fourth Street subway station in the trendy Manhattan neighborhood around 9 a.m. when he heard a crazed man shouting.
“I turned around and just saw some guy just standing in front of me. He just charged at me with a knife or a pair of scissors and just started like attacking me,” said Jaquez of the Bronx.
“He tried to stab me in my chest. I did my best to block it. Thank God I did,” he said.
“I just put my arm up.”
The crazed assailant grazed Jaquez’s right forearm with the weapon while inexplicably hollering about revenge, the victim recalled.
“[He yelled] something like, ‘[It’s] payback! Oh, that’s what you get,’ ” said Jaquez.
“After that he just left.”
Jaquez said that as he bled from his arm, he ran — hoping a good Samaritan would help him — to no avail.
“I was expecting like at least somebody to break it up, help me at least, but nobody did,” Jaquez said.
“They did nothing. No, they just kept walking.”
Jaquez eventually “stumbled across” the NYPD’s Sixth Precinct stationhouse in the West Village and was treated medically.
He has since suffered PTSD-like symptoms, such as fear, anxiety and trouble sleeping, he said.
Police say the scissors-wielding attacker, Hassan Victoria, 45, randomly slashed Jaquez and another victim in the neck on nearby Hudson Street at Christopher and Bleecker streets.
Victoria was later hospitalized uptown and is awaiting charges, law enforcement sources said.
