An 11-year-old girl was slashed in the head near an East Harlem juice bar by a man who fled to a nearby subway station before being grabbed by cops.
Police rushed to 116th St. near Lexington Ave. around 4:20 p.m. Friday where they found the girl with a cut near her ear.
The slashing may have followed a dispute between the girl’s attacker and another adult, police sources said. The man fled to the nearby 6 train station, throwing a box cutter to the rails as he scrambled across the tracks.
Police could be seen retrieving the box cutter, its yellow handle visible next to the rails.
Mario Barber, an MTA worker at the station, said he saw the man dashing across the tracks.
“The third rail sparked,” Barber said.
“He just said people were trying to chase him and beat him up. But he seemed kind of delusional, belligerent.”
Barber grabbed the man, but he slipped away, and a group of people attacked him before cops arrived.
The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, and charges for her attacker were pending Friday.
