Police in New York City are looking for a male suspect in the stabbing of a young woman from Queens at around 11 pm on Monday night. The woman, whose identity has not yet been verified, was returning from work when she was attacked and stabbed more than ten times on 81st Street in Woodhaven, Queens. She was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she remains in serious condition.
Univision spoke this morning with the victim's mother, Wendy Martinez, who said her daughter had been followed by her attacker as she returned from the McDonald's where she worked, down the street where her house is located. She was attacked on the corner. After her attacker fled, she called her mother, who told the news station that her daughter was bleeding when she picked her up and called an ambulance. The station's transmissions included shots of blood on the sidewalk where the incident occurred.
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"She's in bad shape," Martinez said. "It's really hard for me. She's a good girl, she works and goes to school and all that. I don't know who would have done her harm. It's got to be investigated, because if they did it to her, they'd do it somebody else."
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"It's crazy," neighbor Ricky Soto told CBS New York. "I can't believe that, this is a quiet neighborhood."
The victim's mother said that she had been thinking of moving out of the neighborhood due to an increase in violent crime there.
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New York police said they knew the attacker was a male but had not yet identified a suspect. Their investigation is ongoing.
Earlier this month, EDLP reported that the remains of Viridiana Victorio, who died at the hands of her husband in an apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, would be repatriated to the Mexican state of Morelos, where she was originally from. The Mexican consulate said that it would pay the costs of the transportation and funeral. Victorio, 35, was stabbed to death by her husband Angel Ríos while her three daughters of 16, 9 and 7 years old were in the next room over.
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