NEW YORK SLICE
City’s brutal summer continues Stabbed in head in Harlem
Your eyes don’t deceive you — that is a knife sticking out of the head of a man standing on 125th Street yesterday. Paramedics got him help, but it’s part of what police officials say is greater mayhem on the streets, including increased shootings and fireworks complaints.
Hey, is there something on my head?
A Bronx man was stabbed on top of his skull with a cleaver during a brawl in Harlem Tuesday — and walked it off.
“Sharp”-minded Roberto Perez seemed unfazed by the blade, which left him a bloody mess, according to a widely shared Instagram video of the gory aftermath.
“He got stabbed in the head yo, this is crazy!” one person is heard saying.
The clip shows 36-year-old Perez talking calmly with horrified onlookers and strolling toward an FDNY ambulance as if he had just wandered off a movie set.
He appears not to be aware of his blood-drenched undershirt and the protruding knife.
“He looked like he didn’t even feel it,” said one witness.
“The guy was refusing to go inside the ambulance,” continued the witness, declining to be identified by name.
A security guard at a nearby Duane Reade who witnessed the attack said, “I’m traumatized from seeing that. It looks like a scene out of a freaking movie.”
The dicey incident unfolded at around noon at East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, according to authorities.
Despite the slasher-flick-worthy nature of the wound, cops said the victim escaped serious harm because the blade didn’t penetrate his skull.
Perez was listed in stable condition at Harlem Hospital.
Multiple witnesses characterized the events preceding the stabbing as an apparent domestic squabble.
They said Perez allegedly roughed up a female companion who responded by plunging the knife into his head.
The NYPD, however, said that the victim and a 34-yearold woman were on the same side of a dispute against another man.
That man allegedly slashed the unidentified woman across the cheek before lodging the knife in Perez’s head and fleeing the scene.
A doctor at the hospital said Perez was treated in the Intensive Care Unit, and his female companion was also checked out.
“They both appeared to be on drugs,” the physician said.
No arrests or charges were immediately announced.