Men Knifed Through Open Car Windows In Astoria, Police Say

ASTORIA, QUEENS — A duo riding an electric scooter knifed two men through the window of a car on Wednesday night in Astoria, police reported.

Around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 4, a 20-year-old and 18-year-old man were driving in a car with the windows down near 23 Street and 30 Road, police said. At the intersection, the pair on the scooter attacked the men in the car, stabbing them with knives through the open front and passenger side windows, according to the NYPD.

Witnesses told the Daily News that the car bumped into the scooter before the incident. “The car hit one of the guys on the bikes just a little,” a 22-year-old witness who lives on the block told the news site.

Another bystander, Kevin Francisco, 28, told the Daily News that he saw the attack firsthand.

“There was a lot of yelling,” he said, adding that he saw one of the scooter riders pull out a knife. “He stabbed him in the chest five or six times,” Francisco told the site.

“There are car accidents around here all the time, but this was shocking,” he told the Daily News.

After the attack, the duo on the scooter fled down 23 Street in the wrong direction.

The men in the car, meanwhile, tried to escape the area, driving down 30 Road and onto the sidewalk before crashing into the side of a building a couple of blocks away, at 21 Street and 30 Road, police reported.

“The car went out of control. It hit that car over there and then the building and kept going down the sidewalk on its own. There were car parts everywhere,” the female witness told the Daily News.

Shortly after, the duo ran several more blocks and called 911, according to the NYPD.

“They were able to leave the vehicle and run away,” Francisco told the Daily News. “You could follow their blood trail.”

Photos obtained by the Daily News show the car’s passenger-side exterior totally crumpled. Inside, the car’s airbags are soaked with blood.

According to police, one of the men in the car was stabbed under the eye and taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition. The other man was stabbed in the left arm and torso, and taken to Cornell Hospital in serious but stable condition.

During the attack, there were two passengers sitting in the back of the car, neither of whom were injured, according to the NYPD.

As of Thursday, Aug. 5 no arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.