A slasher slit the throat and cut off the ear of a 25-year-old man near Union Square early Sunday morning, leaving him to bleed to death on the pavement.
Cops and witnesses said the victim was in front of the Levi’s store on W. 14th St. at 4:30 a.m. when he was viciously slashed in the neck and torso. The victim’s sister told police she was out with her brother until about midnight.
A horrified passerby alerted a firefighter seconds after he heard a plea for help.
“He told them, you better get down there, someone got their throat cut,” said Malachi Mohamed, 39, who was shopping at a 7-Eleven and saw the exchange. “I knew it had to be serious the way the guy came running up.”
Medics rushed the unidentified man to Bellevue Hospital, but he could not be saved.
Cops are trying to get surveillance footage from businesses nearby.
Meanwhile, the crime scene quickly became a tourist attraction with visitors snapping pictures of the puddle of blood, a gore-splattered iPhone, and the severed ear under a cup.
“It’s kind of weird, but then again it's just kind of another day in New York,” said Drew Fountain, 22, who works at the health club next door.
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