Cross-tatted lunatic sliced gal in Brooklyn

AN UNHINGED man sporting a tattoo of a cross between his eyes is behind bars for slashing a 21-year-old woman’s face in an unprovoked attack in downtown Brooklyn, police said Saturday.

Mishael Alston, 40, (sketch) inexplicably grabbed 21-year-old Naeisha Louis, when she passed him in the crosswalk near the corner of DeKalb Ave. and Flatbush Ave. at 4:20 p.m. on Jan. 27.

He whirled her around and sliced her face without a word, cops said.

“I was bleeding. . . I was crying and panicking,” Louis (photo) said Saturday. “I ran in the Applebee's across the street. He ran after he did it.”

Louis was on her way to her job at a nearby McDonald’s when she spotted the man approaching her.

She recognized him as a regular customer who ordered a large coffee with nine Equals.

Louis said he seemed to pose no threat as he strode past her with his hands buried in this pocket.

“We didn't talk. He didn't say nothing to me at all,” the victim recalled. "I glanced at him as he walked by, but he didn't seem like the type of person to do that. I just kept it pushing.”

Louis said she had no time to react when her attacker grabbed her shoulder, spun her around and slashed her in the face.

She was left with a thick, 6-inch scar from the bottom of her left eyelid straight down to her upper lip.

“I was drinking my blood and it hurt so bad,” Louis said. “I didn't even get to ask him why he did it. He just ran so fast.”

Alston’s blade just missed her eye. Louis claims she’s lucky — doctors said her scar will fully heal within six months.

She says she will never forget her attacker’s face. Louis helped police cobble together a sketch of Alston, focusing on the cross as well as the two circle tattoos she saw under each cheek.

Police grabbed Alston on Wednesday after he returned to the corner where the attack took place.

Louis said she was stunned to see him loitering outside the McDonald’s.

“He was trying to come in McDonald's that day,” she said. “Why would you keep coming in McDonald's when you know I work there?”

He was charged with assault with intention to disfigure, weapons possession and harassment and was ordered held on $25,000 bail after his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

“Why are these men going out slashing females in the face?” Louis asked. “Women just need to be more safe.”

The bloodshed comes as the city is seeing a drop in slashing and stabbings in the five boroughs. As of Feb. 18, cops were investigating 508 slashings and stabbings in the city - a 3% drop from the 524 recorded this time last year.