A man was charged Monday for stabbing a stranger in the back with a knife after the two bumped into each other in an East Village subway station, cops said.
Raymond Kwok, 27, who was arrested around 4:45 p.m. in Manhattan, lives in the East Village near the L train station at 1st Ave. and East 14th St. where the stabbing occurred. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
The arrest came one day after cops released a picture of Kwok taken from MTA security camera and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.
Around 8:43 p.m. Friday, the 29-year-old victim had just exited a Brooklyn-bound L train at the subway station when he unwittingly “bumped into” Kwok, who then “brandished a knife” and slashed the victim in the back, according to police.
At first the victim did not realize he had been stabbed, according to a security guard who witnessed the attack.
“He never saw it coming,” the witness told the Daily News on Sunday. “He yelled, ‘Somebody punched me.’ But then we looked and we saw all the blood.”
Medics transported the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
With Kerry Burke