Dear diary: I cut a guy’s face open
A PSYCHO SLASHER was done in by his diary, prosecutors said Friday.
Francis Salud slashed an innocent stranger in the East Village last week and then wrote in his daily planner that he “did a buck fifty” — slang for a cut that requires 150 stitches — at the time and place of the attack, prosecutors said at his arraignment.
After pretending to have no knowledge of his own whereabouts at the time of the disturbing event during an interview with police at the 9th Precinct, the 28-year-old slashing suspect voluntarily produced his calendar with the perplexing entry.
Next to a date book reminder about a quibble over a Kmart or CVS card, he wrote that he “did a buck fifty on somebody near Third Ave.” near Sixth St. at about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, the prosecutor said.
The damning information helped cops nail him for the serious injury he inflicted on Anthony Christopher Smith, 30, who was in the neighborhood for dinner with friends.
“He actually made an entry in his own planner, that he had committed this crime,” Assistant District Attorney Gregory Sangermano said in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“He admitted to police that it was in his own handwriting,” the ADA added.
Salud, who has an open case for a similar random attack on E. 23rd St. in October, is such a menace to the public that he should not be granted bail, the prosecutor argued.
The ADA said that all of Salud’s record “involves weapons and it involves violence.”
“He is a danger to quite literally anyone he happens to pass on the street,” Sangermano said.
Christopher-Smith — who was sliced across his face and on his back — did indeed require 150 stitches to patch up the gashes Salud allegedly inflicted.
He also suffered damage to four nerves in his face, prosecutors said.
“My smile is off but it could have been a lot worse,” he told the Daily News earlier this week.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gilbert Hong ordered Salud held without bail.