‘Staring’ gets deli customer stabbed: cops

A Brooklyn deli customer was stabbed and wounded by an enraged stranger who thought the victim was staring at him, police said Wednesday.

“He just stabbed me for looking at him,” said Xavier Lall, 33, who was buying a soft drink when he was attacked. “And he walked out.”

Lall said the man (inset) may have been with a woman and both appeared to be ordering food.

“He kept looking at me, so I looked at him a few times and then after that he came behind me, pulled out the butterfly knife,” said Lall. “I could hear it switching around in his hand,”

Cops released shocking video showing the unprovoked attack inside Metro Finest Deli on Schermerhorn St. near Bond St. in Downtown Brooklyn just before midnight June 29.

Lall veered to avoid further conflict, but the assailant lunged at him three times, plunging a knife he opened with a flick of his wrist into the victim’s shoulder and head.

The stabber, wearing matching teal Polo T-shirt and shorts, finished off the attack by kicking the victim repeatedly while he lay on the floor bleeding.

“‘That’s what you get for staring at me,’ ” Lall recalled his assailant saying before walking out.

Lall was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition.

“Right now all that I can do is try to heal,” Lall said. “I see the man every time I go to sleep. I can’t close my eyes without seeing the whole situation in slow motion.’

The stabber ran off and has not been caught.

Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.