Investigators are asking for the public's help to identify the suspect wanted in the stabbing of a 9-year-old boy as he walked to school on Staten Island.
The boy, Jermaine Culver, managed to run home after the Friday morning attack and ask his older brothers for help, authorities and family say.
Police released surveillance video of the suspect Saturday.
Jermaine was headed to PS 22 -- about a mile from his home -- when he was stabbed near Union and Leyden avenues in Mariners Harbor at around 8 a.m., according to family members. The boy was stabbed in his neck, arm and head.
He ran home and, panicked, told his older teenage brothers that he'd been punched. He didn't realize he had been stabbed until the brothers saw him bleeding from the neck, they told NBC 4 New York.
Police made contact with the boy at his house, and he was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Jermaine's brothers said they have no idea who could have attacked him and are urgently asking for help identifying the assailant.
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"He's nine years old, he has no problems," his brother Malik Williams told NBC 4 New York. "His problems are school, math. That's the only problems he should have -- five times five."
"He's a little boy. The happiest, nicest kid there is. I don't understand," said an emotional Williams.
Jermaine's other brother, Maurice Eady, said the boy received stitches for the wounds, which were not deep.
He is doing OK at the hospital, said Williams.
"Jermaine is a trooper," he said.
Police did not have information on a suspect and no arrests have been made.
The Department of Education said it was looking into the stabbing.
Jermaine had been attending PS 44 -- about a half-mile from home -- until recently, when he was moved to PS 22 due to crowding at the closer school, his family said.
