The unprovoked stabbing of a Queens teen in front of her Woodhaven home may be linked to a similar incident in which a woman was nearly killed last month, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday.
“We’re seeing if there’s a pattern here,” Kelly said.
In the first incident, Kerline Denizard, 36, was ambushed when she left her house on 221st Street and stabbed seven times in the throat at around 4:55 a.m. on June 25, cops said. She’s in critical but stable condition.
Then on Monday, a man jumped Natasha Martinez, 17, from behind on 85th Street in Woodhaven and plunged a knife into her back and chest at least 10 times, cops said. She was in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital.
“Both [attacks] appeared to be unprovoked, and there’s no motive or reason to think there was any contact between the victim and the assailant,” a police source said.