NYC woman loses feeling in hand after brutal slashing: ‘Needed rent money’

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Queens woman lost feeling in her hand after fending off an attacker who later admitted he slashed her to get rent money, prosecutors said Monday.

Brayan Tellez, 22, allegedly followed a 24-year-old woman from the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station before ambushing her in an alley on 91st Avenue at around 1:15 a.m. on May 14, according to the criminal complaint.

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Tellez allegedly grabbed the victim from behind and pressed a knife to her throat, authorities said. The woman then pushed him back before she was slashed in the right hand with a knife.

The victim lost feeling in her hand and was unable to move her fingers two weeks after the attack, according to the criminal complaint…

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