A clerk in a Times Square area store advertising itself as a weed shop was stabbed in the stomach with a knife by a customer Sunday afternoon, police said.
The clerk was attacked in the “Cannabis Gifts” store on Eighth Ave. near W. 40th St. about 2:30 p.m.
Medics took the injured clerk to Bellevue Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
The suspect dressed in a red-hooded sweatshirt took off north on Eighth Ave. He has not been arrested.
Police investigate after a person was stabbed at the “Cannabis Gifts” smoke shop on 8th Avenue near West 40th Street in Manhattan, New York City on Sunday, December 18, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
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