Crime & Safety
Woman Needs 93 Stitches After Brooklyn McDonald's Slashing: NYPD
Police are looking for the man who repeatedly slashed an 18-year-old girl's face outside a Brooklyn McDonald's.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — An 18-year-old girl needed 93 stitches after she was slashed in the face outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s.
Police released photos Monday night of a man who attacked the teenager outside the fast food restaurant on Mermaid and Stillwell avenues at about 5 p.m. on Feb. 9.
The suspect and the teen had been arguing inside the restaurant when she tried to leave and he followed with something sharp, police said.
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The man slashed the girl’s face repeatedly then ran east on Mermaid Avenue, said police.
The 18-year-old was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn where it took 93 stitches to treat the cuts on her face, said police.
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Police are now looking for the suspect, whom they describe as a man in his 30s, standing about 6-feet-tall and last seen wearing a green park with a fur-lined hood.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.
Photos courtesy of the NYPD and GoogleMaps/Aug. 2017
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