A Florida businessman was slashed in the neck after getting into an argument with another man while standing at a food truck in SoHo early Friday, police said.
The 55-year-old victim, who cops say was intoxicated at the time, was slashed in the neck from the back to the front at around 3 a.m. at the corner of Canal Street and West Broadway, cops said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said that surveillance video from the location shows an argument break out “between [the victim] and another person who he pushes.”
Boyce added, “The victim pushes him away and then the [suspect] slashes him.”
The content of the argument was not known, according to cops. The businessman “cannot tell us a complete story at that point,” said Boyce.
The unidentified victim had dinner in the area and made stops at other area establishments before the slashing that left him with a laceration to the left side of his neck.
Emergency responders took him to Bellevue Hospital where he was treated for a non-life threatening injury.
Police on Friday released partial surveillance footage of the attacker at the food truck.
He was last seen wearing a yellow winter jacket, a white t-shirt with black lettering, dark pants and a large backpack.

