Fear in NYC over random slashing attacks
Police say the spate of attacks is largely a coincidence. Investigators believe they were committed by different, unconnected people
NEW YORK -- Tony-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang was carrying groceries down a Brooklyn street when he felt like he got hit in the back of the head. He suddenly couldn't walk straight.
"I kept veering into a wall, then a parked car. And that's when I realized I was bleeding," Hwang, the author of "M. Butterfly," said this week.
Hwang had been slashed with a blade by someone who came out of nowhere. The wound was so deep it severed an artery leading to his brain.
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