Fear in NYC over random slashing attacks

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. More...