Woman Slashed For Denying Stranger's Advances In Wburg: Report

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — A Queens woman was slashed across the face on Sunday by a stranger who came onto her on the street in Williamsburg, the Daily News reported.

Dana Sagona, a 31-year-old librarian, told the Daily News that she was waiting for a Lyft near Boerum and White Street early Sunday morning when the man approached her.

“He said I was pretty, then asked me if I was scared,” she said. “I said, ‘No,’ and then he grabbed me by the neck, maybe the shoulder...I felt like I was going to be raped.”

The stranger flew into a violent rage and whipped out a makeshift blade as Sagona tried to get away. He sliced the left side of her face, just narrowly missing her eye, the report said.

“When he took out the blade, he said he would kill me,” she said.

Sagona would need 44 stitches on her cheek from the attack. She described him as an unkempt man wearing baggy jeans and in his 50s, The News said.

He first passed by her as she waited on the street, but then doubled back to try and talk to her, she said.

“He looked me up and down again and pretended to be on his phone,” she said. “He was saying, ‘I’m looking at this beautiful woman. I’m going to marry her.’”

The man ran off with her phone and backpack, including her keys, a MetroCard and a wallet worth $600,she said.

She was rushed to Woodhull Hospital, then taken to Long Island’s NYU Winthrop Hospital, after a man coming out of his house called 911. Sagona said she had first tried to get the help of an Uber driver that pulled up by banging on the window.

Sagona said police told her the attack was captured on video, though there has not yet been an arrest, the News said.

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