A 22-year-old antheral was slashed arsenic a bloody combat broke retired successful a Queens Department of Probation office, constabulary said Friday.
The unfortunate was successful the stairwell of the New York City Probation Office on Jamaica Ave. adjacent Guy Brewer Blvd. successful Hollis astir 1 p.m. Thursday erstwhile helium got into an statement with different man.
During the fight, the fishy pulled retired a leaf and attacked the 22-year-old, slicing his near wrist and close arm.
It wasn’t instantly disclosed if the unfortunate had an assignment with his probation serviceman astatine the clip of the attack.
EMS rushed the unfortunate to Jamaica Hospital wherever helium was treated for a insignificant wound.
His attacker ran off, cops said. No arrests person been made.
Cops responding to the country recovered immoderate bloody clothes, believed to beryllium to the attacker, astatine the scene. The apparel volition beryllium processed for DNA, a constabulary root with cognition of the lawsuit said.
The metropolis Department of Probation has offices successful each 5 boroughs truthful offenders tin conscionable with their probation officers to guarantee they’re working, attending school, oregon gathering different requirements of their non-jail sentences.
An email to the Department of Probation requesting remark connected Thursday’s onslaught was not instantly returned.
The metropolis Department of Probation is presently tally by erstwhile NYPD Director of Training Chief Juanita Holmes, who has been criticized for bringing a much instrumentality enforcement attack to an bureau that traditionally emphasized its societal enactment programs.
During her astir 2 years arsenic caput of the DOP, Holmes has ordered officers to transportation guns, pushed for offenders to beryllium charged much often with probation violations, and slashed backing to well-regarded programs, critics charge.