Police said the suspect had dropped his laundry off at the laundromat in the morning, then came back at the end of the day to see if it was ready. When he was told it was not, he became irate and lunged at a 50-year-old woman working in the laundromat, stabbing her in the neck. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.
A suspect in a stabbing at a Brooklyn laundromat was fatally shot by state troopers after he crashed a stolen car in upstate New York, police said.
The man, identified by police as Ali Ali, stabbed a worker at a laundromat in the Bath Beach neighborhood several times on the face and neck on Monday, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition, New York City police said in a news release that included a surveillance photo of the attacker.
The laundromat's owner told NBC New York that the stabber was irate because his laundry wasn't ready.
Two days later, the same man was driving a stolen car with state troopers in pursuit when the vehicle crashed and caught fire on the New York State Thruway, police said.
Ali fled on foot and was recorded by a trail camera in Highland Mills, a hamlet in Orange County, state police said in a news release.
State police located Ali in a densely wooded area, police said. There was a confrontation and at least one trooper fired a gunshot, striking and killing Ali, the state police said.
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The investigation is ongoing.
