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by a sick smiling straphanger is a hardworking Manhattan restaurant worker who was coming home from a long shift when attacked, a pal said Tuesday. Roberto Gaspar, 25, was simply looking down at his phone when the violent stranger approached him from behind on a No.
7 train at the 111th Street station in Corona, Queens, on Sunday night, according to his friend and police sources. The unidentified attacker – captured in a surveillance image smiling broadly – then plunged an “unknown sharp object” once into Gaspar’s neck and twice into his back, cops said. Roberto Gaspar, 25 was looking down at his phone on board a No. 7 train when a smiling stranger knifed him multiple times, cops and sources said.Gaspar was taken to New York Presbyterian/ Queens Hospital, where pal Tomas Calel, 35, told The Post he now is hooked up to a ventilator, unable to speak. “He is serious. He can’t talk,” Calel said in Spanish outside the victim’s Queens apartment building. “He’s in the ICU. He’s hooked up to machines.Gaspar is originally from Guatemala but has been in the US for seven or eight years — working and sending money back home to his family, according to his friend. The victim has four sisters, one of whom also lives in the city, Calel said. The victim typically works 10-hour shifts five days a week at a Manhattan restaurant, where he “does everything” from cooking to cleaning to dishwashing – and often takes on a sixth day in busy times to send money home to help his parents and three other sisters, Calel said. Gaspar takes the train to and from work and was headed home when the incident happened, according to Calel. The victim was simply taking his daily train commute home from his Manhattan restaurant job when he was attacked, his pal said.“I’m angry. He didn’t do anything wrong,” Calel said. “I believe is a bad guy. Why did he do that? I want them to catch this guy. “He’s laughing,” Calel added as he looked at the image of the gleeful suspect. “He doesn’t care what he did to my friend.” He described his badly injured buddy as “a quiet guy” who “doesn’t make trouble” and simply goes home to sleep after his long work days. Calel said he plans to visit Gaspar in the hospital, where the victim’s sister – who is “crying a lot” and “scared” – was already gathered with her husband. Calel, who works at a different Manhattan restaurant, said he is now afraid to ride the train at night. “Sometimes I go by train, sometimes I go by bike. I take the train at nights, I come home at 10 at nights,” he said. “I’m afraid to take the train now because what happened to my friend could happen to me, too.” Anyone with information on the assault is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA . Bizarre twist revealed for pair caught on Coldplay kisscam — including wild claim about HR exec's husband Ryan Routh tries to stab himself with pen in court after being convicted of Trump assassination attempt Cruise passengers are using their bras in a 'disgusting' way — and other guests are over it: 'Please stop'Gucci ‘The Tiger’ premiere red carpet: See all the celebrity looksSebastian Maniscalco surprises fan impersonators in Atlantic CityRoberto Gaspar, 25 was looking down at his phone on board a No. 7 train when a smiling stranger knifed him multiple times, cops and sources said.The victim was simply taking his daily train commute home from his Manhattan restaurant job when he was attacked, his pal said.
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