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| Photo Credit: NYPD via New York Daily News |
New York Police authorities on Tuesday released photos of four men wanted in connection with the slashing of a 23-year-old man during a clash at a Times Square drug spot, New York Daily News reports.
Police said
the victim was standing near the corner of 42nd St. and Seventh Ave.
when the attackers approached him at about 8:20 p.m. on June 14.
A quarrel soon
ensued among the three men over who controls the marijuana trade at the corner
when one of the attackers pulled a blade and slashed the victim in the back,
stomach, shoulder and head, police said, according to New York Daily News. The
injured man was later taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
The
assailants fled into the nearest subway station and jumped the turnstile,
police said, New York Daily News reported.
The identities
of the suspects are not yet known but the police is asking the public’s help in
identifying the assailants and has released surveillance video to that effect.
Surveillance
video shows two of the suspects wearing white shirts and black pants while the
other two wore orange sweatshirts.
The police
is asking anyone with useful information to call Crime Stoppers at (800)
577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.