New York City police have a person of interest in custody after a series of random slashings in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Odyssey Head, 27, was arrested Sunday in Coney Island for allegedly breaking into a laundry room inside a building on New York Avenue, setting clothes on fire, and damaging the washer-dryer. But now he is considered a person of interest in the three slashings that occurred over the two days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Head has four prior arrests including robbery and will remain in custody for questioning, according to police sources.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
“I mean, he tried to kill me”\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 56-year-old victim declined to appear on camera or to give his name out of concern for his safety.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
“I mean, he tried to kill me,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man told CBS News New York that he was attacked around 7 a.m. Sunday while walking on Newkirk Avenue. He said his attacker did not say anything to him before the slashing, and he was unable to get a look at him.<\/p>\n
“It’s like this guy came from nowhere … hiding somewhere,” the man said. “It’s not like someone who asked me for money or a dollar, nothing.”<\/p>\n
He needed over a dozen stitches on his neck as a result of the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“What I would say to the state is do your job. There’s people that cannot be on the street like that,” he said.<\/p>\n
Additional random slashings<\/p>\n
The two other slashing incidents happened Saturday morning, with one 53-year-old man receiving a gash to the left side of his face at the corner of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue. The other victim was a 37-year-old man who was slashed in the face on the Northbound Q platform at the Cortelyou Road station.<\/p>\n
Both victims were taken to Kings County Hospital. They remain in stable condition. Their identities have not been released.<\/p>\n
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