Bx. holiday hell 4 men stabbed after Christmas party as kids watch
Man shot on M train in Brooklyn
A mother holding her sleeping 3-year-old daughter in her arms watched helplessly as her husband and three other men were stabbed and wounded leaving a Bronx Christmas party.
The bloodshed began around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday when Blanca Salgado and her unsuspecting family left a friend’s Christmas bash on E. 165th St. near Sheridan Ave. They passed a hostile group of men smoking pot in the lobby and hallway she said, as they made their way to a cab waiting outside.
“We were having a great time with the family,” Salgado told the Daily News, speaking in Spanish. “The kids were opening presents. The kids were happy. We were all happy.”
Salgado, 30, was just out the door when her brother called after her, yelling that the strangers had begun attacking Salgado’s husband, Juan Colin, and their best friend, Salvador Gomez.
Salgado rushed back, clutching her sleeping 3-year-old daughter.
“The men were fighting with Juan and Salvador. I saw Juan get stabbed,” said Blanca Salgado. “The men were holding my husband with each arm and another guy stabbed my husband.”
“I had my daughter in my arms and Salvador was fighting with three other guys,” she added.
Gomez’s wife, Sandra Gomez, and her three kids ages 2, 4 and 6 also witnessed the stabbings. Sandra Gomez pleaded with the assailants, “Stop! My kids,” Salgado said.
Four men, ages 21, 24, 29 and 35, were rushed by EMTs to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, according to police.
The party’s host, Galdino Valle, heard the commotion and stepped out of his apartment.
“One guy yelled at me, ‘Don’t call the police,’ ” said Valle. “He tried to stab me with two knives in each hand.”
Valle immediately called the cops, and the assailants fled before police could arrive.
Police said the victims had been drinking and were uncooperative, refusing to tell investigators what happened.
There were no immediate arrests.
Later in the day, Salgado was approached and threatened by the wife of one of the assailants, she said.
“If you call the police, you will know me later,” Blanca Salgado says she was told by the woman, leaving her shaken.
“My mind is occupied, and I’m feeling sad,” Salgado said.
A 26-year-old man was shot and wounded on a moving subway train in Brooklyn Christmas morning, police said.
The gunman opened fire on the Manhattan-bound M train at 12:35 a.m., striking the victim once in the shoulder and twice in the back, cops said.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to survive, authorities said. He has one prior arrest, in October for felony possession of K2 and heroin, a police source said.
The conductors stopped the train at the Lorimer St. station on the border of Williamsburg and BedfordStuyvesant, where the shooter managed to flee.
Police recovered two spent bullets as they investigated.
A description of the gunman, who boarded the train at Flushing Ave., was not available. He remains on the loose.