Cowardly attacker slashes face of woman, 24, in latest of horrific NYC attack

A woman identified as Amanda Morris, 24, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had her face slashed by a random attacker outside a New York bar. Kari Bazemore, 41, has been charged with assault in the attack. A woman identified as Amanda Morris, 24, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had her face slashed by a random attacker outside a New York bar. Kari Bazemore, 41, has been charged with assault in the attack. Photo: New York Daily News Via Inform Photo: New York Daily News Via Inform Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Cowardly attacker slashes face of woman, 24, in latest of horrific NYC attack 1 / 14 Back to Gallery

A 24-year-old woman from Brooklyn, New York, is recovering after a random attacker purposefully slashed her face and fled in an unprovoked attack on an NYC street.

Amanda Morris was walking with her earbuds in in New York's Chelsea neighborhood at about 6:25 a.m. Wednesday when the attack happened, according to the New York Daily News.

Surveillance video shows a man in a red sweatshirt or jacket, dark pants and running shoes walking alongside Morris, before quickly lunging at her and slashing her multiple times on her face. He then quickly runs across the street.

No robbery of further attack was attempted.

"I was slashed on my face with an unidentifiable object thought to be a razor/box cutter," Morris wrote on Facebook. "It was unprovoked and I did not have any association with this man prior to the incident. We have never seen each other before."

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Today was a difficult day that I never thought I would have to go through, I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong... Posted by Amanda Lynn Morris on Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Morris was able to call for help at a nearby store and was taken to nearby Bellevue Hospital where she received multiple stitches for the deep cuts near her lips and nose.

"I thought he was homeless or drunk or something, because he was wobbling around and didn't have any direction," Morris told The New York Post. "In my gut, I knew he was not right. I knew he was on drugs or something because of the way he was walking."

Acting on a tip from the public, police were able to use the surveillance footage to arrest Kari Bazemore, 41, of the Bronx.

He has been charged with assault. According to multiple news sources, Bazemore is a multiple time violent offender with 32 arrests within the past 15 years. Most recently, he was charged with punching a 32-year-old woman in the face in another NYC attack on Dec. 30. Earlier in 2015, he was charged with grand larceny.

In 2013, he was arrested for "forcible touching," according to the Daily News.

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NYC has seen a string of slashing attacks in recent weeks, according to the Daily News, though police would not say if Bazemore was a suspect in those attacks.

The Daily News reports that on Dec. 16, a man in a surgical mask, surgical gloves and a hoodie slashed a Chinese exchange student in Queens. The same day, a 48-year-old man was the victim of a slasher attack in Brooklyn.

At least eight other similar attacks have occurred dating back to Nov. 3, the Daily News reports.