Brooklyn laundromat customer stabs worker for not finishing his wash fast enough
A woman working at a Brooklyn laundromat was stabbed in the neck by an angry customer after she told him his clothes weren’t ready for pickup.
The 50-year-old woman worked at a 24-hour laundromat on Bath Avenue in Brooklyn.
The suspect took his clothes to the garage on Monday morning and when he returned later that evening he was told they were not ready. He then became enraged.
Witnesses said he cut the woman’s neck and arms before 2 p.m.
A 50-year-old woman working at a Super Laundry on Bath Avenue in Brooklyn was stabbed in the neck by an angry customer after she told him his clothes weren’t ready for pickup. PICTURED: Super Laundry in Brooklyn
Police arrived around 1:39 p.m., but the suspect had already fled. He was wearing a gray shirt and white sneakers and was seen walking north on 21st Avenue toward Benson Avenue.
The office of the deputy commissioner for public information told DailyMail.com that the woman was taken to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn and could not be identified.
But the unknown woman told the New York Post She recognized her attacker as a casual customer and knew that his mother lived across the street from the laundromat.
Police arrived around 1:39 p.m., but the suspect had already fled.
He was wearing a gray shirt and white sneakers and was seen driving north on 21st Avenue toward Benson Avenue.
DCPI told DailyMail.com that no arrests have been made yet.
This came just a month after a Jewish man was attacked by a suspect shouting “Free Palestine” near a local synagogue.
The suspect, 22-year-old Vincent Sumpter, was charged with assault as a hate crime, leaving 33-year-old Yechiel Dabrowskin in the hospital after a heated exchange on a Brooklyn street.
It happened on August 11, when the Israeli, who had come to the United States to study religion, was walking home from a Shabbat meal near the Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights.