Cops: 'Gang' attack in the Heights

by Charles Hack
Tuesday July 22, 2008

A 19-year-old man was punched and stabbed several times in the Jersey City Heights yesterday morning in what reports indicate was a gang-related incident.

As he was speaking to friends in front of 38 Prospect St. shortly before 9 a.m., two men jumped out of a golden Honda and attacked the 19-year-old, reports said.

One man punched the 19-year-old in the back of the head and then stabbed him in the neck, reports said.

The two men then chased him four blocks to a dry cleaners on Webster Avenue, where one of the men stabbed the victim in the leg and slashed his right arm, reports said.

A witness told police he saw the victim tumble out of the dry cleaners scuffling with one of his attackers before both attackers fled along Webster Avenue, reports said.

Police reports described the victim as uncooperative.

He did, however, tell cops he is a member of a street gang that's having a "beef" with lots of people, reports said.

Despite his injuries, the 19-year-old walked to Christ Hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening stab wounds, reports said.