{"id":352678,"date":"2026-09-21T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352678\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:44:15","slug":"man-recounts-being-stabbed-in-face-by-stranger-in-unprovoked-attack-in-brooklyn-subway-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352678\/","title":{"rendered":"Man recounts being stabbed in face by stranger in unprovoked attack in Brooklyn subway stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man on his way home from work was stabbed in the face by a stranger in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/12\/brooklyn-subway-slashing-victim-furious-to-learn-judge-released-attacker-without-bail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unprovoked attack<\/a> in a Brooklyn subway station, the victim told the Daily News Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mamadou Li, 26, was returning home from his job as a kitchen supervisor when the stranger stabbed him on the underside of his chin without ever saying a word about 5:55 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got off the train on my way home and took a couple steps forward and some guy just snuck attacked me,\u201d Li told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Li had just stepped off an East New York\u2013bound C train inside the Rockaway Ave. subway station in <a href=\"https:\/\/cityneighborhoods.nyc\/ocean-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Hill<\/a> when the stranger stabbed him with a sharp instrument, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics took Li to <a href=\"https:\/\/onebrooklynhealth.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookdale University Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s a traumatic incident. I\u2019ve been released from the hospital so it\u2019s more so working on the mental side of it,\u201d Li said. \u201cThe physical side, I think, will be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the stabbing, the attacker hopped on the C train Li had just exited, according to Li.<\/p>\n<p>Li, who has lived in New York for most of his life, is now scared of taking the subway but says he has no choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the main mode of transportation, but there\u2019s definitely some paranoia building up and some fear that I have to continue to deal with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider myself very lucky and very grateful,\u201d the injury wasn\u2019t worse, he added. \u201cFor me, it was wrong place, wrong time. For somebody else, it might not be the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attacker has not been caught, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened to me, it could happen to anyone,\u201d Li said. \u201cI hope it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Felony assaults in the subway have increased 11% \u00a0from last year, with 461 attacks so far in 2026 \u00a0compared to 417 by this time last year, NYPD stats show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man on his way home from work was stabbed in the face by a stranger in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352679,"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-352678","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\/352678","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=352678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}