An autistic man who vanished from his Bronx home more than a week ago was stabbed twice in the back in a random Upper East Side attack Wednesday afternoon, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
Isaac Davis, 23, was walking on Second Avenue near East 96th Street around 3:30 p.m. when a stranger knifed him from behind without whispering a word, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n
Isaac Davis, 23, was found unconscious and bleeding after a stranger stabbed him at the intersection of Second Avenue and East 96th Street, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n
Davis wandered off from his Bronx NYCHA apartment more than a week earlier, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n
The victim, who couldn\u2019t see who attacked him, was found on the ground unconscious and bleeding, police said.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he is expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n
Davis wandered away from his apartment on East 166th Street within NYCHA\u2019s Forest Houses in the Morrisania section around 1:30 p.m. on July 20, when his mom reported him missing, cops said.<\/p>\n
Police released his photo at the time in a public plea to help track him down.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition. Getty Images<\/p>\n
It is unclear where Davis went between the time of his disappearance and when he was attacked, or how he traveled to the Upper East Side. <\/p>\n
No arrests have been made in the unprovoked stabbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An autistic man who vanished from his Bronx home more than a week ago was stabbed twice in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[14836,128,303,57,7373,9,24,63,2442,129,131,130,466,58],"class_list":["post-310232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-autism","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-missing-persons","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310232","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=310232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}