Cops seek public’s help finding Crown Heights stabber
Brooklyn BP Adams urges vigilance as assaults pile up
Police on Thursday issued a photo of a suspect wanted in Wednesday’s stabbing of a 25-year-old Orthodox Jewish man in Crown Heights. As the investigation continues, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams issued a call for vigilance in the midst of several recent vicious attacks, including a fatal assault in Brownsville and the killing of a woman and children on Staten Island.
The Crown Heights victim, Yehuda “Laiby” Brickman, was walking on Empire Boulevard near Kingston Avenue at 11:43 a.m. on Wednesday when he was stabbed in the back near his upper right shoulder, a police spokesperson told the Brooklyn Eagle. The attack occurred in the 71st Precinct.
A Hotzolah ambulance transported the victim to Kings County Hospital in stable condition with a collapsed lung.
Police said that when the victim turned around he saw a man running away from him on the street. The suspect is described as black, 20-30 years old, 5-foot – 10-inches, 180 lbs., with a black book bag, last seen wearing a dark colored jacket, blue hooded sweater, dark colored pants and black boots. Surveillance video shows the suspect running down the street. Brickman did not know his assailant.