A Queens mom of three was randomly slashed by a masked maniac as she walked to a bus stop Monday morning — leaving her “scared to go back home” as she recovered at the hospital hours later, she told The Post.
Lisette Ramales, 29, was crossing the street, steps from the bus stop at 23rd Avenue and 94th Street in East Elmhurst around 6:20 a.m. when the stranger began the senseless attack, according to cops and the victim.
“I was waiting for the light to turn to walk,” Ramales said in a phone interview from her hospital bed. “[While] I was waiting, all of a sudden, the guy slashed me twice. I yelled, and he looked like he turned around to go.
“And then just because I yelled, he did it again,” she said, adding the attacker slashed her four times — without saying a word.
“That’s the weird part. He didn’t say anything,” Ramales recalled. “He didn’t take anything, my belongings — nothing.”
Despite her cries, bystanders were reluctant to help her after the unprovoked horror, Ramales said.
“I was walking to a lady that was there,” she said. “She didn’t even offer to help me. She was just looking at me, and I was crying and yelling. And then a man approached me [while] he was walking his dog, and he didn’t even tell me anything. He just called 911, which I appreciate.”
Ramales was rushed to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she received stitches and remained several hours later.
Her most serious wound was on her back, and she suffered broken ribs, she said.
Ramales’ kids are 3, 11 and 14, and she’s never before been afraid to let the older ones walk to school in the “calm” neighborhood – but now she thinks differently.
“Honestly, I’m scared to go back home,” Ramales said. “If I do work, I’m probably just going to go a little later in the day when there’s sunlight.”
No arrests have been made in connection with the random violence.
The attack came less than 24 hours after a 27-year-old deli worker at the Staten Ferry Terminal was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack Sunday morning, police said.
The victim was walking through the terminal around 7:20 a.m. when Osiris Brown, 29, knifed him once on the right side of his face, authorities said.
The employee was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
Brown was arrested and charged with assault, resisting arrest, criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and harassment, cops said.
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