A woman pushing her toddler in a stroller in downtown Brooklyn was stabbed multiple times in a vicious broad-daylight attack after getting into a scuffle with a stranger, police said Wednesday.
The 34-year-old mom was allegedly reprimanding her 3-year-old daughter at Jay and Tillary streets around 3:30 p.m. Monday when the other woman chastised her for yelling at the child, a bystander told The Post.
The attacker — who wore a blond wig — started yelling at the mom and then threatened to harm the little girl, according to police.
“I didn’t provoke her,” the wounded mom told The Post. “I don’t know this person. I don’t want her to stab my daughter. I can handle myself. It’s real crazy. All I saw was she was going for my daughter and I had to step in.
“I have six stab wounds,” she said. “It was quick-paced.”
The bystander who shot the video said the bloody scuffle started when the suspect allegedly saw the mom “screaming at her child.
“The other woman didn’t mind her business. She was saying, ‘Why you screaming at the baby?’ The woman with her baby said, ‘It’s none of your business.’ They started arguing,” the local construction worker, who asked not to be identified, recalled.
An unhinged woman threatened to hurt a toddler in a stroller before repeatedly stabbing her mom in downtown Brooklyn, cops said. NYPD“The woman with the baby fell to the ground. She fell on her back. The other one took out a long knife and started stabbing her.”
The victim was knifed in the chest and multiple times in both legs, according to police.
“The mother held up her hands and was shouting, ‘Stop, stop,'” the witness recounted. “The other woman was just stabbing her. The people were shouting for her to stop. A man stepped in and pulled them apart.”
He said the mom got back up and the unidentified attacker fled on foot, tossing the knife near a local church and heading north on Jay Street.
Video footage obtained by The Post shows the two women still jawing at each other after the attack, with the blood-splattered victim pushing the stroller away as her assailant heads in the other direction.
A man on a bicycle is seen yelling as the two women separate.
“I grabbed the stroller and walked away,” the mom said. “Everybody was saying, ‘You need to go to the hospital.’ Once I got to the train station I saw the blood. I had strings and whatever I could find I used to stop the blood.”
She was later taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
“I don’t remember her getting me in the chest,” she said. “When I went to the hospital I noticed it. It was in an adrenaline rush. I didn’t feel anything.”
She told The Post she was due to be released Wednesday evening.
Her young daughter was not injured.
“You shouldn’t have to worry about walking down the street with your baby,” local mom Chanae Howard, 32, said as she pushed her 2-year-old daughter in a stroller at the scene on Wednesday.
“I’d fight for my life and my baby’s life. It’s not safe to walk around here. I feel bad for the baby.”
“I’m always careful,” she added. “If it’s my time to be attacked, I’m going to fight, go for the eyes, kick, use pepper spray. It’s very scary.”
The NYPD on Wednesday released surveillance photos of the suspect, who is still at large.
Cops say the suspect stabbed the mom in the chest and both legs.
The woman is seen walking and talking on the phone, with the blond wig tucked under her arm.
She is described as about 30 years old, 5 feet 6 and 160 pounds, with a dark complexion, a thin build and short, black hair.
She was last seen wearing a red jacket, black pants, white sneakers and carrying a gray purse.
