Santos Camacho, a 22-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of stabbing an immigrant from India in a random attack in a park in Jersey City (NJ).
The 28-year-old victim, Ojas Junnarkar, miraculously survived and has already had three surgeries in less than a week. According to ABC News was attacked with a knife while walking alone on the athletics track at Pershing Field on Sunday night.
After the attack, Junnarkar was able to walk home. Seeing him badly injured, his upstairs neighbor helped him, taking him to the hospital in his car. “I saw that his hands were bloody, all his clothes, everything was bloody,” Osman Gani said. “The surgeon said, ‘Thank God you brought him in on time, if it had been two hours later, he would have been gone.’ “That knife reached the kidney and there is a hole in the colon.”
Junnarkar is recovering at Jersey City Medical Center from his third surgery, but his parents live in India and were unaware of their son’s condition until yesterday, according to Gani.
Camacho was arrested on multiple charges, including aggravated assault and illegal possession of a weapon. The motive for the attack is unclear.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
Also in New York The number of stabbings and cuts continues to rise. There were 4,493 cases in 2023 until early December, an increase of 6% compared to the same period in 2022. In parallel arrests for knife crimes have increased almost 30%.
The figures do not surprise experts because knives are simply easier and cheaper to get than a gun. However, They represent a more brutal attack because they involve more physical approach to the victim.
On Tuesday night, a man was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver during an apparent fight over cigarettes in Times Square, a global tourism icon, a few steps from an NYPD police station.
A previous NYPD report warned last August that fatal stabbings had risen 29% that year in the city compared to before the pandemic (2019). Attacks with knives have become more frequent in various scenarios: streets, buildings, homes, buses, Metro, parties, schools and even commercial establishments and ATM areas.
2024-01-27 15:59:00
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