"Ambrosio Castro recalls hearing a mumbled question, seeing a flash of steel - and then "blood going everywhere" after he was stabbed on a subway platform by a deranged stranger.
In a horrifying instant, Castro realized the blood was his.
"I thought I was going to die," the 29-year-old Brooklyn man said yesterday as his worried wife sat by his hospital bedside.
Castro - one of four victims of accused serial stabber Kenny Alexis - said the suspect attacked so quickly "I had no time to react."
"I saw the knife the moment before he stabbed me," Castro said in Spanish, his voice a hoarse whisper, his arm hooked up to an intravenous drip.
While he lay on the platform clutching his gut, Castro said he thought of his 10- and 7-year-old daughters back home in Puebla, Mexico.
He thought about how in the six years he and his wife, Isaura, had been in New York, nothing even remotely dangerous had happened to them."
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Mr. Castro. In Mexico. Where you can be with those lovely daughters. Six years in America and never learning the language means of course that you had no intention to call the States your home, and as soon as you get better we hope that immigration services takes you back across the border where you'll feel far more comfortable.
But there's more on the criminals-harming-criminals-front:
| A Texas tourist blocked a subway door. A Brooklyn cook refused to turn over his cell phone. A deli manager wouldn't give him a bottle of water. And two women rebuffed a pickup line. In the twisted mind of Kenny Alexis, those perceived slights justified his decision to knife four people and terrorize two others during a rampage in Manhattan - just five days after being let loose by a Boston judge, authorities said yesterday. But Alexis, 20, is far from deranged, according to prosecutor Christopher Ryan. "He came to New York to commit crimes," Ryan said during Alexis' arraignment on charges of attempted murder, assault, robbery and attempted robbery. Prosecutors revealed Alexis' bizarre explanations for the stabbing spree as a family friend in Boston described his past erratic behavior to the Daily News. "He's not well in the head," said Benito Jean, a longtime friend of Alexis' parents, who died in Haiti, according to Jean. Jean said he and his wife welcomed Alexis into their Mattapan, Mass., home after he moved to the United States about two years ago. But the religious man now wants nothing to do with him. "Send him back to Haiti," Jean, speaking in Creole, said. |
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