US News

ROMANCE IS SHATTERED

A Boston University student from Long Island snapped yesterday while arguing with her engineer boyfriend – and stabbed him in the neck with a broken beer bottle at an East Village nightclub, cops said.

The shocking attack left Victoria Lee, 22, facing attempted-murder charges, her boyfriend, a graduate of top-notch Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Bellevue Hospital with serious injuries, and their families wondering how their storybook romance turned bloody.

“Whatever happened wasn’t the normal situation,” said Nat Clarke, whose son, Joshua, was allegedly stabbed by Lee at the trendy Sutra nightclub at 16 First St. just after 1 a.m.

“Right now, I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt until I speak to my son. I just don’t understand what happened,” Clarke said. “I wouldn’t expect this from her.”

Sources said Joshua Clarke’s mom showed up at the Ninth Precinct – where Lee was being held after the stabbing – and told cops that her son was “not going to press charges. She’s going to be my daughter-in-law.”

The dark-tressed Lee and Clarke have dated since attending junior high school in Freeport, LI.

Their romance continued through their years at Freeport High School, whose 2004 yearbook features an entire page devoted to a montage of photos of Lee and Clarke hugging and kissing, with the title, “Josh and Vicky.”

After high school, Lee went to Boston University, and Clarke went to RPI, where he served as president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers before graduating last spring with a mechanical-engineering degree. More recently, Clarke has been working a corporate job in Manhattan.

Early yesterday, the couple was in Sutra when they began arguing, law enforcement sources said.

Lee smacked Clarke in the face – twice – and after he failed to respond, she picked up a large beer bottle and thrust it at his neck, sources said.

“I heard screaming and glass breaking,” said a worker at Sutra. “I saw blood sprayed on the door curtain and the wall.”

“I saw the guy sitting outside the club. They rushed to him with towels and sat him down . . . He looked really bad.”

Lee was arrested at the scene. Yesterday afternoon, she was walked out of the Ninth Precinct in handcuffs and refused to answer when a reporter asked her what had happened.

Additional reporting by Kevin Fasick and Jamie Schram