{"id":261943,"date":"2026-06-10T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:50:45","slug":"man-stabbed-in-eye-with-knife-critically-hurt-in-brooklyn-barber-shop-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261943\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed in eye with knife, critically hurt, in Brooklyn barber shop clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 41-year-old man was left clinging to life after he was stabbed in the eye with a large knife during a fight inside a Brooklyn barber shop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/06\/03\/nyc-crime-hits-historic-lows-fewest-murders-shootings-first-5-months-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim got into a quarrel inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/bob-s-classical-barber-shop-brooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob\u2019s Classic Barber Shop<\/a> on Albany Ave. near Lenox Road in East Flatbush about about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>As the clash escalated, the victim was stabbed in the left eye and right shoulder with a large knife, possibly a machete.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, wearing all white, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-critically-injured-after-being-stabbed-in-the-eye-in-east-flatbush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fled in a car<\/a>, News 12 Brooklyn reported. He has not been caught.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>There were multiple people in the barber shop at the time of the attack but none of them would tell cops what happened, a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that could help them track the stabber\u2019s movements and identify him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man was left clinging to life after he was stabbed in the eye with a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-261943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261943","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=261943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}