Police ID suspect in stabbing of 16-year-old girl on Brooklyn sidewalk
NEW YORK - Police say they're searching for a man seen on video stabbing a 16-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
Sixteen-year-old Dagean Wilson was walking into a corner store to buy some ice when a man walked up with a black knife and stabbed her in the back.
"Just randomness. He just wanted to come and hurt me," Dagean told CBS2's Nick Caloway. "It felt like a punch. It hurt."
It was May 22 around 6 p.m. outside a shop on Rockaway Parkway and Rutland Road in Brownsville.
Dagean said she didn't know she had been stabbed until a witness stopped and told her, so she went home and showed her mom.
"I took it and I opened it and it was a deep wound. And I was like, 'Oh no, it looks like you were stabbed,'" said LaRonda Hicks, the victim's mom.
Dagean spent several hours in the emergency room. Physically, she's fine, but the emotional trauma lingers.
"Like, when I come outside, I just always look over my shoulder a little bit," she said.
Police say the attacker is 20-year-old Lewis Osie. He has not yet been caught.
Dagean said she doesn't know the man, and the attack was completely unprovoked.
"I don't know why anyone would do that," she said.
"You don't ever stop to think the person that you're going to walk past is just going to turn around and stab you," Hicks said.
Dagean's mom is grateful her daughter is OK but knows it could have been so much worse.
She told CBS2 with the wave of violence consuming the city, she was already considering a move somewhere safer.
"Gotta escape the city. There's too much killing," she said.
Dagean says she hopes her attacker is caught soon so he can't do this to someone else. Her mom said she hopes the man gets some much-needed help.
Anyone with information about her attacker is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
