Suspect nabbed in slashing of Danish tourist on Upper West Side: NYPD sources

A fishy has been nabbed successful the slashing of a Danish tourer connected the Upper West Side, constabulary sources said Thursday.

After securing surveillance footage of the attacker, cops arrested a 25-year-old antheral for the slashing aboriginal Thursday, constabulary sources said. He is being questioned and is awaiting charges.

The fishy lives a abbreviated region from wherever the onslaught took place, cops said.

The 55-year-old victim, visiting from Denmark, was attacked connected W. 86th St. adjacent Columbus Ave. astir 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.

According to police, the assailant came up down the unfortunate — who was walking with 2 companions — and slashed him from the close ear, on the close feature and down to his neck.

Blood and improvised bandages, insubstantial towels, are pictured from a slashing extracurricular 114 w. 86th St. Wednesday. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

“F— you, guys!” the knifeman reportedly shouted astatine the trio.

The victims’ friends, on with Rrustemi, aided him, giving him a shirt, towel and a rag to use to his wound, earlier a caregiver who lives successful adjacent gathering gave the unfortunate an crystal pack, according to Rrustemi.

“He was bleeding truthful badly,” the ace said. “He sat determination and didn’t accidental anything. He was losing feeling successful his face. He was successful shock.”

The unfortunate was taken by medics to Mount Sinai Morningside successful unchangeable condition.

Police initially were calling the onslaught unprovoked. It was not instantly wide what acceptable disconnected the slasher.

NYPD officers analyse a slashing connected W. 86th St. successful Manhattan connected Wednesday. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

A surveillance video of the incidental shows 3 gangly men, 2 of them blond, walking by. Soon aft they walk retired of the video frame, a young antheral clutching a leaf is seen moving furiously aft them and past he, too, disappears retired of the frame. The attacker past reappears successful the video frame, appears to outcry thing angrily backmost toward the unfortunate and the different 2 men, and past runs disconnected successful the absorption from which helium came.

The bloody battle comes connected the heels of a horrific random triple execution that played retired connected Manhattan’s streets earlier successful the week. On Monday, three radical were stabbed to death in the drawstring of unprovoked weapon attacks, which spanned from Chelsea to Kips Bay to adjacent the United Nations. Ramon Rivera, 51, has been charged with execution successful each of those 3 attacks.