Racist stabbing attack on subway
A black man was attacked on a subway in Harlem by a woman who made racial remarks before carving him up with a knife, police sources said Monday.
“I don’t know why she did it, because I didn’t do anything to provoke her,” Ijan Jarrett, who needed nearly 100 stitches after the attack, told The Post.
The 44-year-old hairstylist was heading home to The Bronx on a 4 train Sunday night after a shift at a New Jersey salon.
“Two girls came on the train,” Jarrett recalled. “The heavy-set girl was standing over me. I asked her, ‘Would you like to sit next to your friend?’ She said, ‘Oh, no, no. I’m good.’ ”
But then the woman — later identified as Stephanie Pazmino, 30 — allegedly gestured at him and barked, “I don’t want your seat!” according to police sources.
She then allegedly turned to her cousin and said, “I don’t want to sit next to a black person.”
Jarrett said he could only make out the word “Negro.”
“I moved. I got up and I said, ‘ OK, you don’t have to sit next to me,’ ” he recalled.
But as the train reached 125th Street, the woman stormed over and “punched me on top of my head. I didn’t know I was being stabbed,” Jarrett said.
“She stabbed me right under my left eye, on the back of my hand and on my left arm. She was screaming and hollering the whole time.”
Pazmino was awaiting arraignment Monday night.