A woman who was stabbed by a maniac at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve claims he approached her from behind and punched her, and no one helped her after he plunged the knife into her throat.
Imani-Ciara Pizarro, 26, had just gotten off the 4 train around 10 p.m. and was on her way to an administrative night job at the Roosevelt Hotel, which had been converted into a migrant shelter, when she was attacked.
She was Facetiming her neighbor when she spotted blood spattered on the floor near the turnstiles. Seconds later, Pizarro “blacked out” after the attacker “sucker punched” her in the back of the head “as hard as he could,” knocking her to the ground.
The suspect, identified by police as 28-year-old Brooklyn native Jason Sargeant, began repeatedly yelling at her, “What is your problem?” before lunging at her with a small knife, cutting her throat. He then kicked Pizarro’s phone away.
Witnesses to the stabbing, including many tourists, “just froze.” She claimed that police were nowhere to be seen.
“I wish I could travel to my job without being attacked. I wish there were cops in Grand Central when I was attacked, but there were none. “I was running for help, and there was no one there,” she explained.
“There are usually cops in four different spots and I ran to each one of them but none were there,” she told me.
“Nobody called 911. No one at Grand Central called 911. It was my neighbor. I called my neighbor. I was on the phone with my neighbor at the time, and she called 911.
A second stabbing victim, a 42-year-old man slashed in the wrist, “got injured worse than me,” she said.
“It was almost like he wanted to get caught cuz he ran further into Grand Central” towards the central ticket booth yelling “I hate all of you,” Pizarro said.
She hid until her attacker fled the station, and with no one to help her as she bled from her neck, Pizarro dashed to the Roosevelt Hotel, where medical personnel patched her wound.
According to The Post, after Pizzaro was stabbed, witnesses pointed out Sargeant to MTA police officers inside the station. He was arrested, and the weapon was recovered.
According to police, he faces charges of assault, reckless endangerment, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment, and disorderly conduct.
Sargeant has three prior arrests for criminal mischief, fare beating, and assault on a police officer, according to sources.
“This is not fair. We are getting hurt every day. And there is nothing I can do. I can not protect myself. I have almost been assaulted twice in the last two months by mentally ill people. I try to ignore them, but they do not like it either,” Pizarro explained.
She stated that she will try to find a safer way to get to work, but driving is significantly more expensive than taking the train.
“I want to be able to go to work without being harassed or attacked.” To stay safe. “It is not possible right now,” she explained.
The double stabbing occurred less than a week after a woman was set on fire on a late-night F-train in Coney Island, making it the ninth killing on the metro system this year, matching a 25-year record.
Critics slammed bystanders and an NYPD officer who were caught on camera watching idly as the woman, engulfed in flames, writhed in pain before collapsing.
Tuesday’s incident marks the second Christmas in a row that people have been attacked at the iconic Midtown train station.
Last Christmas Day, two teenage girls visiting from South America were stabbed at Tartinery in the Grand Central Dining Concourse by a man yelling, “All the white people dead.”
