By Gina Martinez
FRESH MEADOWS — Police were searching for a man in connection with a robbery in Fresh Meadows.
According to police, on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 8:25 p.m., a 15-year-old girl was walking at the corner of Horace Harding Expressway South Service Road and 155th Street when a man pulled out a knife and demanded her cell phone. The victim refused and attempted to run away when the suspect slashed her left leg before fleeing in unknown direction without any property, police said.
The victim sustained a laceration and was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition, police said.
Police described the suspect as a white male in his 40s who is approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and 170 pounds with blue eyes, and long brown curly hair.
Police said he was last seen wearing a dark baseball hat and blue shorts.
