A Manhattan restaurant worker was reportedly randomly stabbed by a smiling stranger on the subway while heading home after a long shift, a friend said Tuesday.
Roberto Gaspar, 25, was looking at his phone when the attacker approached him from behind on a No. 7 train at the 111th Street station in Corona, Queens, on Sunday night, according to police and a friend.
The assailant, captured in surveillance footage smiling broadly, stabbed Gaspar once in the neck and twice in the back with an unknown sharp object, authorities said.
Roberto Gaspar, 25, was looking down at his phone on a No. 7 train when a smiling stranger stabbed him multiple times, police and sources said.
Gaspar was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens Hospital, where his friend Tomas Calel, 35, told The Post that he is now on a ventilator and unable to speak.
“He is in serious condition. He can’t talk,” Calel said in Spanish outside Gaspar’s Queens apartment building. “He’s in the ICU and hooked up to machines. The doctors say maybe he’ll be able to speak again. We are hoping he recovers and can talk.”
