Girl, 16, stabbed walking into B’klyn juice bar
A 16-year-old girl walking into a Brooklyn juice bar was stabbed in the back by a total stranger in an unprovoked attack, startling video released by the NYPD on Wednesday shows.
The teen was entering the Urban Juice Bar and Grill on Rutland Road near Rockaway Parkway in Brownsville about 6 p.m. on May 22 when her attacker — a knife in one hand and a bottle of water in the other — crept up behind her.
The assailant jabbed the teen in her back left shoulder with the knife without warning and dashed off.
Medics took the teen to Brookdale University Hospital, where she was treated and released. The Daily News is withholding her name because of her age.
On Wednesday afternoon, cops named the suspect as Osie Lewis, 20, and asked the public’s help tracking him down.
The teen victim’s mom, Laronda Hicks, told The News she was relaxing at home when she got the frightening call from the owner of Urban Juice & Grill reporting her daughter had been stabbed.
“‘Mom, I think I was stabbed,’ ” Hicks recounted her daughter saying. “She didn’t seem like she had been stabbed.” Hicks frantically called 911, but while she was on the phone with dispatch, an ambulance and the police arrived.
She said she then raced to the juice store.
“She was calm. She felt no pain. She thought he hit her,” Hicks said about her daughter.
Hicks added that when she got a chance to look at her daughter’s back, between her shoulder blades, “It looked like someone scratched her [at first].”
Yet, she told The News, “It was deep enough to look down into.”
The day after the heartless attack, the teen bravely went back to the same store — and hasn’t missed a single day of classes since the injury, Hicks said.
“He needs to be off the streets,” Hicks said of the assailant. “I don’t want to see this guy do this to someone else. What was your mentality? You actually attacked a young girl.”
The stabber is described as about 150 pounds with a thin build, black hair and a goatee. He was wearing a black T-shirt with a white lion image on the back, gray sweatpants and white sneakers.
Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.