New York Post

KIN: A KNIFE’S ENOUGH

Stab vic’s last NY trip

- By ALEX OLIVEIRA

The tourist mom stabbed in the chest by a knifewield­ing maniac in Times Square in broad daylight on Saturday was chaperonin­g a group of school girls on a class trip when she was attacked — and her family says they have no plans to visit the city again.

“We don’t feel safe there,” the victim’s husband, John Lohr, told The Post.

His wife, 36-year-old mother of five Amber Lohr from western Pennsylvan­ia, was guiding the students near Times Square when 61year-old Cyril Destin allegedly lashed out in a totally unprovoked attack.

Destin, who has 14 arrests to his name over the last 20 years, was sitting outside a deli on Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street, when he suddenly leaped to his feet and plunged a knife into Amber’s chest as she, her daughter and the kids left a souvenir shop.

“A guy with a very lengthy record went out of nowhere and attacked my wife by stabbing her into the chest and within inches of her life being lost,” John Lohr said.

Despite being so severely wounded that blood started darkening her thick sweatshirt, Amber kept her cool and thought first to protect her students — and her husband believes she is a “hero” for doing so.

“My wife not only had taken the stabbing but should also be considered a hero by remaining in front of the children, coaching them to go backward without turning around,” he said.

Only after making sure her students were safe did Amber tell anybody she’d been stabbed, and a bystander ran for help.

“Whomever she was ‘Thank you,’” John said, adding that he wanted to also thank the “strong and fearless” girls his wife was chaperonin­g for keeping their composure and helping, despite being “scared out of their minds.”

Blade-in-hand bust

Before being taken to Bellevue Hospital, Amber was treated on the sidewalk while her attacker was arrested. Surveillan­ce video shows he was still holding the knife when cops arrived.

“To think I could have been planning a funeral rather celebratin­g my wife on Mother’s Day is sickening to me,” John said.

Destin — who lives in a shelter across the street from the attack site — was charged with second-degree assault, along with fourthdegr­ee criminal possession of a weapon.

His two-decade-long rap sheet includes busts for menacing, trespass, theft and other charges, sources said, and he has a history of erratic and destructiv­e behavior, and hallucinat­ions.

The Lohrs want Destin put away for a long time.

“This man will strike again, and maybe the next person may not be as fortunate,” John said.

“I will not accept anything but the max sentence for him.”

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