Crime & Safety
Customer Stabbed in Neck at Adult Video Store in Chelsea
A 56-year-old man was leaving the store when he was attacked from behind by a fellow customer, police said.
CHELSEA, NY — A customer at a 24-hour adult video store near 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue was viciously attacked early Saturday morning, according to police.
A 56-year-old man was leaving 725 Video, a sex shop with private adult viewing booths, just after midnight when he was struck in the neck from behind with a sharp object, police said. The victim was transported to Bellevue Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
The suspect, described by police as a man in his 20s, about 5-foot-10 and 150 pounds, immediately fled the store in an unknown direction. No arrests have been made.
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Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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