A homeless woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stabbing a mother who was pushing her toddler in a stroller on a Brooklyn street.
Lequasiah Lawrence, 25, was charged with attempted murder and assault over the unprovoked attack on the 34-year-old mom Monday afternoon, the NYPD said.
Lawrence allegedly repeatedly slashed the woman and threatened to harm her 3-year-old daughter at Jay and Tillary streets.
It is the first run-in Lawrence has had with police, according to a police spokesperson.
“I didn’t provoke her,” the wounded mom told The Post. “I don’t know this person. I don’t want her to stab my daughter. I can handle myself. It’s real crazy. All I saw was she was going for my daughter and I had to step in.
“I have six stab wounds,” she said. “It was quick-paced.”
The victim was knifed in the chest and multiple times in both legs, according to police.
Lawrence allegedly set her sights on the mother after witnessing her yelling at her daughter, a bystander said.
“The other woman didn’t mind her business. She was saying, ‘Why you screaming at the baby?’ The woman with her baby said, ‘It’s none of your business.’ They started arguing,” the local construction worker, who asked not to be identified, recalled.
Lawrence is accused of pulling out a “long knife” and pouncing on the mother after she fell to the ground on her back.
A man eventually pulled them apart and Lawrence allegedly fled on foot, ditching the knife near a local church and heading north on Jay Street.
The mother was later taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
Her 3-year-old daughter was not injured in the attack.
