Crime & Safety
Store Clerk Stabs Customer Over Dispute In The West Village: NYPD
An argument about the customer's credit card getting overcharged led to the slashing, according to police.
WEST VILLAGE, NY — Police are asking the public's help to identify a store employee who stabbed a shopper in the West Village after getting in a fight about a credit card being overcharged.
The altercation took place on Jan. 5 around 5:30 p.m. inside a grocery store at 200 West 14th Street, according to police.
A 34-year-old man was making a purchase at the store when he got in an argument with the employee about the amount charged to his credit card, police said.
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According to the police, the employee lost his temper and began swinging a black knife at the shopper, slashing the 34-year-old once in his lower back.
The man was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Bellevue in stable condition, police said.
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Police released a photo Wednesday of the man wanted in connection to the incident.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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