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A 28-year-old smoke shop worker in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx is recovering after police say he was slashed in the face during a dispute over a discount.
Exclusive surveillance video obtained by News 12 shows a worker pushing a man out of a smoke shop on East 167th Street around 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 21. Seconds later, the man appears to pull out a knife and run back inside.
“Not even the stores are safe now. We are not safe anymore,” said a woman who works at a nearby shoe-repair shop.
Just a few doors down from the smoke shop, the front door of that shoe-repair shop is still broken after someone kicked it in. The worker there said she was attacked on Sunday while trying to park near the store.
“She just attacked me for no reason actually,” the woman said. "She cut me and even she took out of her car like something sharp, a knife or something to hit me."
She said she called police but waited hours for a response.
“I don’t feel like the police is doing something. I haven’t heard from them,” she said.
The smoke shop victim’s sister told News 12 the slashing started when the man asked her brother for a discount and then turned violent even after her brother gave him one. She said her brother was also stabbed in the back of the head.
The smoke shop worker was taken to Lincoln Hospital and is now recovering at home, according to his family.
Detectives are still trying to track down the suspect. The victim’s cousin told News 12 the man came back to the smoke shop three days ago, but workers were too scared to call police.
Anyone who recognizes the man in the surveillance images is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.