New York Daily News

Slasher’s caught on cam: cops

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA

Police on Tuesday released photos of the suspect wanted for slashing a woman’s face after flirting with her on a Brooklyn street.

Images of the alleged attacker, taken from surveillan­ce video, show him casually walking down the street wearing glasses, a knit hat and earphones plugged into his smartphone.

The picture was tweeted by the 90th Precinct, which said the suspect was wanted for a Sunday morning robbery at Boerum and White Sts. in Williamsbu­rg. The post does not mention the assault.

But the victim, Dana Sagona, a 31-year-old city librarian, won’t soon forget the attack — or the 44 stitches need to close the gash on the left side of her face.

She was waiting for her Lyft ride when the suspect, who minutes earlier eyed her up and down as he walked past, came back toward her.

He pretended to be on his cell phone, telling someone he was looking at a beautiful woman and wanted to marry her, she said.

Then he got really close to her.

“He said I was pretty, then asked me if I was scared,” Sagona told The News. “I said, ‘No,’ and he grabbed me by the neck, maybe the shoulder.

“I felt like I was going to be raped.”

He took out a makeshift blade and sliced her face, narrowly missing her eye, as she tried to fight him off.

The suspect ran off with her backpack and her belongings, including keys to her Queens apartment.

Sagona, who had spent the night at a friend’s place and planned to spend the day volunteeri­ng for Kitty Kind, a feline rescue and adoption group, said doctors have told her that she will likely have a scar when the wound heals.

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