A Brooklyn man came unhinged yesterday, repeatedly hacking his wife with a meat cleaver after she accidentally swept a broom over his foot, police and witnesses said.
The brutal attack at a Dyker Heights apartment left Shao Ling Ye, 54, in critical condition with deep gashes to her head, arm, chest and finger.
“She swept over my feet and that really sparked it,” the suspect, Youshening Huang, 53, allegedly confessed to cops moments after the hellish attack, according to neighbor Joseph Tsang, 23, who translated for the officers.
The violence erupted just after 9 a.m. when Huang was frying up a meal of macaroni and hot dogs at his second-floor apartment on 67th Street, near 13th Avenue.
His wife, a home-care aide, was tidying up when she brushed over Huang’s foot, sending him off the deep end.
“I heard a lot of arguing going on. I heard someone running around,” said Tsang, whose father owns the building. “It’s usually peaceful up there. I didn’t expect anything to go on upstairs.”
Huang, who has been living in the building for six years, allegedly grabbed the cleaver and unleashed his rage on Ye.
The gravely injured woman stumbled downstairs and begged for help from neighbors, who quickly wrapped her cuts.
“There was blood all over her,” said Candice Meng, 21, who lives in the basement. “I just heard her shouting, ‘Help!’ ”
“We came out and she was lying there with her husband standing next to her looking down at her,” she said. “He was showing no remorse.
“He asked me if he could come down and wash his hands.”
Ye was taken to Lutheran Hospital and Huang was arrested. He was charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.