A Bronx woman miraculously survived being stabbed 40 times — including through her heart, police sources said.
Alyssa Wilcynski, 35, was heading to her Mott Haven apartment when she said a stranger followed her into the building. He attacked her with a rusty steak knife on stairs near the sixth floor at about 10:40 p.m. March 15, she recalled yesterday.
She fought back, biting his neck and forearm, and he pummeled her in the head.
“It knocked me out for a split second,” she said. “He must have thought I was dead . . . I knew I was going to die.”
A neighbor knocked on the family’s door and toldWilcynski’s husband, Patrick Sotomayor, 38, that his wife had just been stabbed.
“He pierced her heart,” he said yesterday. “He’s still out there. I want him off the street — he’s an animal.”
EMS rushed Wilcynski to Lincoln Hospital, where she underwent open-heart surgery, as well as stomach and kidney operations.
“God was with me, because I didn’t die,” she said. “The doctors were great. They saved my life.”