{"id":188805,"date":"2026-04-07T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:18:36","slug":"man-49-repeatedly-stabbed-pepper-sprayed-in-random-chinatown-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188805\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 49, repeatedly stabbed, pepper-sprayed in random Chinatown attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 49-year-old man was repeatedly stabbed and doused with pepper spray by a stranger in an unprovoked attack on a Chinatown street on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was walking past the Wai Wah Market on Catherine St. near East Broadway around 9:30 a.m. when the stranger, who was dressed in a blue tracksuit, stormed up and started arguing with him, police and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were walking the same direction and one guy sounded like they said, \u2018Why you looking at me?\u2019 or something, and then it just started,\u201d Joanne Hung, a cashier at the Wai Wah Market, told the Daily News. \u201cI heard the noise (from the argument).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the confrontation continued, the suspect pulled a knife and a can of pepper spray, witnesses said. He repeatedly stabbed his victim in the arm and back before spraying the man in the eyes, Hung said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other guy who cut him had pepper spray,\u201d she said. \u201cThe pepper spray was really strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the suspect ran off, the victim went into the market to ask for water to clean out his eyes, Hung said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate a stabbing inside a grocery store at 17 Catherine St. in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"768\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-GA-260407-stabbing01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8768622\" \/>Police investigate a stabbing outside a grocery store on Catherine St. in Chinatown, in lower Manhattan, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>EMS took him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he was expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>His attacker ran off and was still being sought by authorities Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim, he was conscious, he was talking. He said he doesn\u2019t know that guy,\u201d Hung said. \u201cThis is the first time something like this has happened. It was early morning, so it wasn\u2019t a lot of people outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 49-year-old man was repeatedly stabbed and doused with pepper spray by a stranger in an unprovoked attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-188805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}