An NYPD Officer was stabbed within the arm on Christmas Eve whereas responding to reviews of an individual in want of medical help, police stated.
The officer, recognized by Mayor Eric Adams and police as Officer Lin Zhen, was stabbed within the arm round 5:45 p.m. after he and a accomplice responded to the misery name close to Dekalb Ave and East 212 St. within the Bronx, officers stated.
Zhen, 35, was knifed in the best arm with a knife by a 26-year-old man, cops stated.
Mayor Eric Adams entered the hospital on Christmas Eve to go to Officer Lin Zhen.Twitter: NYCMayor
EMS transported Zhen to St. Barnabas hospital in steady situation and transported the 26-year-old man to North Central Bronx Hospital for an analysis, police stated.
Costs are nonetheless pending.
The Mayor tweeted a photograph of him strolling into St. Barnabas Hospital within the Bronx to go to Zhen shortly earlier than he attended Midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.