Woman Goes On Rampage In Manhattan, Slashes Friend's Leg With Hatchet And Flees

In a bizarre incident, a woman slashed another woman’s leg with a hatchet, ran off to a magazine store and later locked herself in an elevator.

The victim, a 29-year-old woman, was at a mutual friend's apartment on East 85th Street, Manhattan when she got into an argument with the suspect, a 23-year-old woman. The suspect then slashed the other woman with a hatchet, and ran off to the roof of the building, said police, as reported by NBC New York.

“I was scared. I looked at my ankle and I was bleeding. It was very weird,” the victim told New York Daily News.

Later, the suspect climbed out of the apartment window and used the fire escape to get on the building’s roof. After some time, she reached ground level and went to International News and Magazines where she scared off the clerk.

The clerk said she grabbed two packs of cigarettes and told him, “These are $30, I’ll pay you back.”

“I know her as a customer. Her palms were covered in blood. She had an ax,” said the clerk, who didn’t reveal his name.

Recalling his interaction with her, he said, “She came in my store and said, ‘Help me. They’re coming to kill me.’ She kept talking about ‘the cat, the cat, they’re going to kill the cat.’”

He said he ran outside and called the police. “She was a very nice lady. I can’t believe she did this. We used to talk about stocks,” he said.

The clerk said that she even started serving customers at one point. Later, the woman boarded a bus, but got off after it crossed a single block. She entered an apartment building, and asked the doorman there to help her.

“She said ‘Hide me!’ I said, ‘No, you have an ax!’” the doorman said.

“Then she ran into the elevator and locked herself in. I was bugging out.”

About 20 minutes later, the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit made her step out of the elevator and took her into custody. Before she was taken away, she told a reporter, ”Please, sir, oxygen, I need oxygen. Please help me, sir. Please, officers.”

An investigation is going on. Charges against her are pending.