Bronx woman miraculously survives vicious stabbing attack
- Last Updated: 5:40 PM, April 2, 2013
- Posted: 5:39 PM, April 2, 2013
A Bronx woman miraculously survived being stabbed forty times in her apartment building.
Alyssa Wilcynski, 35, was heading to her Mott Haven apartment when she said a stranger followed her into the building and attacked her with a rusty steak knife on stairs near the sixth floor about 10:40 p.m. March 15.
She fought back, biting his neck and forearm, and he pummeled her in the head.
“It knocked me out for a split second,” she said. “He must have thought I was dead. He went through my back pocket, took my benefit card. I knew I was going to die.”
A neighbor knocked on their door and told her devastated husband Patrick Sotomayor, 38, that his wife had been stabbed.
“He pierced her heart,” he said. “He’s still out there. I want him off the street, he’s an animal.”
EMS rushed Wilcynski to Lincoln Hospital, where she had open-heart surgery, as well as stomach and kidney surgery.
“God was with me, because I didn’t die,” she said. “The doctors were great, they saved my life.”
Cops say the suspect is in his early thirties, and wore a black hooded sweatshirt and Yankees baseball cap. He wore a pair of black thick-framed glasses.
