leading to the arrest of kari bazemore wednesday night. >> she was bleeding a lot. she was crying, she walked in and she said somebody slashed her in the face. >> amanda morris left with two visible gash on her face after investigators say 41-year-old her and unprovoked slashed her and then ran off. it happened around 6:00 wednesday morning on west 23rd street in chelsea as morris was on her way to work. morris who had to have stitches writes on facebook, i was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and put in an unfortunate situation. it was about 12 hours later that that good samaritan spotted kari bazemore walking near st. patrick's cathedral and called police morris now urging others to learn from her experience adding "i did have a bad feeling about this man as soon as i saw him. his walk was irregular and he appeared under the influence by his body language and stance. always always trust your gut instincts." >> now police say just last month, kari bazemore was arrested for punching a woman randomly in the face and in this case he's now charged with crimi

police walked kari bazemore from the 13th precinct house in chelsea. he was quiet. just as he was when he allegedly slashed a 24-year-old victim on morning. the crime. what helped, police say his cleveland indian's jacket seen in this video. an eagle-eyed man spotted him wearing it this morning and alerted a police officer who made the arrest. >> as he's walking on fifth avenue, he sees an individual wearing with this jacket, acting somewhat irrationally. >> reporter: police wonder if he attacked four other people. investigators are examining cases in the bronx and manhattan. as for kari bazemore he has had prior arrests and his family claims he has a history of mental illness. according to police sources, not all of the contacts police are connecting kari bazemore to are slashings but they all appear to be ram come. brynn gingras, news 4 new york. >>> police in new jersey are investigating a deadly car crash as a part of a homicide. it happened this afternoon in newark. the victim was found in the car he was take on the the hospital and pronounced dead. the victim

>> reporter: kari bazemore's clothes had evidence of slashing a 24-year-old woman. he was led on his way to book and arraignment he wore a white jumpsuit provided by police. it may be a while before he chooses his own clothes again. >> a little bit shaken and sore. >> reporter: 24-year-old amanda morris spoke to eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson street. it happened in a heartbeat bazemore in the red jacket slashes her face and runs. the two had never met but that video led to bazemore's capture when a man saw it on tv and saw a man in the distinctive red jacket later that night. >> the young man was watching the news, saw the jacket, and went about his way in to the city. he sees an individual wearing this jacket, acting somewhat irrationally. he alerted two mounted cops on 5th avenue. >> reporter: turns out kari bazemore has been a one-man crime wave, arrested 32 times since 1997, for a long list of crimes including assault, grand larceny, forcible touching, and a host of other offenses. now this. >> something hit me in the face and i thought maybe he pu

violent. >> reporter: at the 13th precinct police are in the stages now before charging 41-year-old kari bazemore with assault, the latest in a long series of crimes, many of them violent, that has so far not but this surveillance video, that's bazemore in the red coat, helped police catch him this time. >> the young man was watching the news, saw the jacket and went about his way in to the city that night. as he's walking on 5th avenue, he sees an individual wearing this jacket, acting somewhat irrationally. he went over and alerted this behavior and individual to two mounted cops on 5th avenue. >> a little bit shaken and sore but i'm all right. >> reporter: his latest victim, 24-year-old amanda morris, spoke with eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson. morris was walking near bazemore on west 23rd street when he rushed and slashed her face with a razor. bazemore has been arrested 32 times over the last few years for a laundry list of crimes including assault, grand larceny, and forcible touching. morris never saw it coming. >> he started walking slower and slower and he could tell i could

eyewitness news reporter dray clark is live in gramercy with new details. >> the suspect, kari bazemore has a long rap sheet and history of randomly attacking women. this morning he is in police custody at the 13th precinct. a few people recognized bazemore walking around midtown and they flagged down police officers who found bazemore and arrested him. police have been offering a $2,500 reward to find the man featured in the surveillance video. the video shows the suspect, who is believed to be bazemore, walking alongside a woman then randomly and suddenly slashing her in the face with a knife or box cutter and then running away. the 24-year-old victim was walking to her job in chelsea early yesterday morning. she never saw the man's face. across her face leaving her with a wound that required 7 stitches. >> something hit me in the face. i thought he punched me, broke my nose. i felt blood. then when i went in the dinner i said please help me. they said you have a big cut. i didn't know what was going on. >> reporter: kari bazemore, the suspect, has a long rap sheet including more than

police say that's kari bazemore in the red coat, moments before he slashes morris, completely unprovoked. bazemore, career criminal accused of violently cutting her wednesday morning, leaving 24-year-old morris with these gashes on her face before running away. >> he was walking ahead of me. i noticed that his pace changed. and immediately i was like, oh, this is and good. i could tell that he was waiting for me kind of. >> reporter: investigators say a man who saw the surveillance video on tv spotted bazemore near st. patrick's cathedral wednesday evening. and flight down two mounted officers including officer ogunad. morris, who was on her way to work, had to have stitches, now out of the hospital determined to face her alleged attacker in court. >> i haven't seen his face, so i don't think it's going to sink in until i do see his face. but i'm willing to do that if you with him behind bars and he's not able to hurt people anymore. >> reporter: detectives say bazemore is expected to be walked out of the 13th precinct station house later this afternoon. he is charged with felony assault

police say kari bazemore is a arrests. the 41-year-old now on his way from the police precinct in gramercy park to night court charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. >>> otis livingston in sports. i misspoke earlier. he went out as an a, mike piazza, but he is going in the hall of fame as a met. >> so many great memories here in new york and i'll take you back to one in a second. the first overall pick and the 1,390th pick. on this day they are equal. ken griffey, junior and mike piazza elected into the national baseball hall of fame induction ceremonies taking place july 24. piazza is the lowest ever draft pick to get the call to the hall. in fact 62nd round beating the odds and then beating baseball better than any catcher in history with 427 career homers, 396 as a catcher. he hit it 10 days after the dodgers it's no surprise he is going in as a met. some way, shape or form. became a new york met and truly have a special relationship here with the fans of the mets. i feel like the fans here tru

police are linking kari bazemore to another slashing just a week ago. reporter kemberly richardson in on this story. kemberly? >> reporter: dave and liz, right now kari bazemore is inside the 1-3 precinct. detectives believe he may be linked to other crimes. lineups. the 41-year-old has been in and out of trouble for nearly two decades. officials point out his offenses were misdemeanors. as far as being a violent criminal he wasn't on their radar until now. this surveillance video obtained by eyewitness news played a major role in the arrest of kari bazemore. authorities say that is him in the red jacket. early wednesday morning he was roaming around west 23rd street in chelsea. police say cameras captured the 41-year-old with lightning face. >> something hit me in the face. i thought maybe he punched me and i thought maybe i broke my nose. i felt blood. >> reporter: from her home, she walking in front of her as she slowed down. once he got next to her, cut her. razor. >> looking back, do you wish you would have crossed the street. >> oh, my god, yes. i

they called for backup, and the 41-year-old suspected, kari bazemore, was arrested. that happened about 6:00 at night. 12 hours earlier, a young woman walking to work was followed by the suspect. she talked with us about the moment she was attacked. the victim wanted to hide her face in the interview. >> i thought my nose was broken and i was freaking out. i ran into the nearest place by me, and they helped me call the ambulance. >> reporter: and the victim received seven stitches. coming up in the next half hour, darlene, you'll hear from one of the diner workers who helped her. also here at the police building, we expect to see the suspect around 9:00 a.m. when he's led out of the police station. we're waiting to find out if he'll be brought to a hospital for a mental check or to the courthouse for an arraignment. back to you. >> all right, katherine creag. thank you. >>> the bronx man now charged with murdering his pregnant daughter is due in court today. william caruth was arrested after the body of his 39-year-old daughter andrea was found in the basement of the

kari bazemore was arrested near st. patrick's cathedral. someone recognized his cleveland indians jacket from surveillance video and alerted an officer. police are trying to link bazemore to four other random attacks in manhattan and the bronx. >> we're looking back as we go forward in other cases possibly in the bronx as well. we'll go forward in identifying him as well. >>> bazemore has had 31 prior arrests. his family claims he has a history of mental illness. he was taken to bellevue hospital for an evaluation. >>> in newark, homicide detectives are now investigating the death of a man found in a crashed car. that car flipped on top its side yesterday afternoon in the 300 block of north 6th street. the man inside transported to university hospital, where he was pronounced dead. there's reports that someone may have shot him before that accident. >>> investigators also trying to figure out what caused a new jersey transit train to slam into a car in paterson. want to show you the aftermath of that crash at the 5th avenue grade crossing.

the attack on west 23rd street in chelsea was captured on surveillance video. 41-year-old kari bazemore is facing weapons and assault charges. police say he has more than 30 arrests on his record. the victim received stitches in her face. she tells eyewitness news she was shaken up but she is otherwise okay. >>> traffic is flowing again on the gowanus expressway hours after all westbound lanes were shut down due to a horrific multicar crash. newscopter 7 was over the scene near 7th avenue in bay bridge brooklyn as emergency crews examined the wreckage. as many as four vehicles collided. one person was trapped inside a car that was crushed and wedged against a big rig. >> he wound up in the one part of the car that was not crushed, an area about three that's where his upper body was. he was lateral across the seat with his legs under the dashboard. he was in a lucky position. >> too close for comfort. the victim is in the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. >>> another bad day on the dow as it tumbles into the triple digits. investors fear china's slumping economy and continued d

carry bases more -- kari bazemore has been linked to a similar attack last week. his family says he has a long history of mental illness. since 1997. bazemore is undergoing police custody. >>> crews in manhattan are working to fully restore oxygen service to a hospital after a man who fell from a roof damaged some equipment. police say a man jumped from a building next to roosevelt hospital and landed on an oxygen tank or the wires of the oxygen tank about 2:00 this morning. he was pronounced dead at the scene. the impact of the fall severed the tank's line and disrupted the flow of oxygen to the building. the er. oxygen tanks were distributed. >>> a confrontation with an unruly passenger on a united airlines flight lead to scary moments. it was forced to make an emergency landing in detroit after the woman attacked a flight attendant. marci gonzales joins us with more. >> reporter: david, passengers nowhere. the woman, whose name has not been released yet started screaming then turned violent. letter police questioning this woman after an in flight outburst last

police are talking to kari bazemore. they say he's the man captured in chelsea yesterday on surveillance video and it turns out he's been arrested 32 times since 1997. police say as cut a woman's face with a razor blade in the bronx. bazemore's other charges include assault, grand larceny, and forcible touching. >>> an arrest tonight in the stabbing death of a mcdonald's manager outside the restaurant's parking lot in the bronx. a homeless man is now charged in the murder. he turned himself in to police yesterday. investigators say he stabbed a 28-year-old man named adam garcia outside the kingsbridge mcdonald's early monday morning after following garcia in to the parking lot. garcia died from multiple stab wounds. >>> there was a brief court appearance today for the father accused of killing his pregnant daughter in the bronx. andrea caruth strangled and bludgeoned to death. police say it was all because of money problems. marcus solis has more. he joins us more from bay chester. >> where that terrible discovery was ma

. >>> the man accused of slashing a woman in chelsea was charged 48-year-old kari bazemore is accused of two attacks including cutting a 24-year-old woman in the face. police say he had a box cutter on him when he was arrested. he was ordered held pending results of a psychiatric evaluation. >>> a swift resolution to what could have been an international crisis. 10 u.s. sailors and their two boats released this morning by iran after the vessels wandered in to iranian waters. were the boats disabled or was this some kind of covert operation? we might never know. shirleen allicot here with the new developments. including the timing. this incident happening during last night's state of the union address. today video was released showing one of the sailors speaking out. >> it was a mistake that was our fault and we apologize for our mistake. >> this interview appears to have happened while 10 navy sailors were being detained at an iranian base on farsi island. >> it was a misunderstanding. we didn't mean to go in to iranian territory water. >> reporter: it comes a few hours after this fri

. >> reporter: amanda morris was not kari bazemore's first victim. the 41-year-old slashing suspect was charged in yet another unprovoked attack on a woman today this one back in november on 55th street and fifth avenue. police say he hit a woman in the face with a bag containing something heavy. she to be a picture of him and recognized him from the video of the attack on morris in chelsea. he was wearing the same clothes. he is also suspected in another slashing in the bronx new year's day and was arrested for punching another woman in the west village two days earlier. amanda morris wonders why he was free to roam the streets. 32, which is -- which is ridiculous. >> reporter: in fact, in court documents from the manhattan attack on the 30th, it recommended that bazemore not be released on his own recognizance and says here not recommended for ror. in the point system used he scored minus 6 out of 10 because he has no phone and has prior arrests. he was determined to be a high flight risk. but in the end, the judge set no bail and bazemore was ror,

the extensive criminal history of the man police say attacked her. 41-year-old career criminal kari bazemore is the razor- wielding man in this surveillance video according to police, from 23rd street and chelsea early-morning wednesday. at first walking in front of her, the attacker waits for morris to catch up and be side by side then suddenly he pounces, slashing fast, then running away. >> as you watch you on this video, what goes through your mind? >> it's scary. my logic was if i look at the business then he will leave me alone, too. but -- but no. >> reporter: investigators say a man who saw the surveillance video spotted bazemore near st. patrick's cathedral. he flagged down this mounted police officer and a second officer who made the arrest. bazemore is charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the attack. he has a lengthy rap sheet, with several dozen arrests in the past. >> apparently he had 32 offenses before this. 32! which is -- which is ridiculous. >> reporter: is there something wrong with the system, in your opinion? >> definitely yeah. >> reporter:

this morning the suspect, 41- year-old kari bazemore is here at the precinct. a couple of people that recognized him from news reports saw him walking around yesterday afternoon near st. patrick's cathedral. they immediately flagged down two police officers who found bazemore and arrested him. now, police had offered a $2,500 reward to help find the man in the surveillance video. the video shows the suspect now believed to be bazemore walking alongside the woman and then absolutely -- suddenly and randomly slashing her in the face with a knife or box cut irrelevant. the 24-year-old victim was walking to her job in chelsea near west 23rd and 7th avenue. she never saw the man's face. she felt the blade sliding across her face leaving her with a wound that required seven stitches. i thought i broke my nose. i felt blood. i said i'm bleeding. they said you have a big cut on your face. i said what, i thought i broke my nose. >> the suspect has more than 30 arrests including one for attacking a woman on december 30th. in that case, police tell us at sixth avenue and

made an arrest in the slashing of a woman walking to work in manhattan in an chelsea. 41-year-old kari bazemore is facing weapons and assault charges. police satisfy has more than 30 arrests on his record. the victim received stitches to her face. she is shaken but okay. >>> we check the commute with heather o'rourke. >> we will update you on the had the horrific crash being cleared away. as you go to the gowanus expressway outbound 7th avenue overpass, all lanes are closed on the on side. 4 trains ems activity at 151st street completed. long island railroad, new jersey transit, metro north doing fine. over here to toms river, 37 east near vaughn avenue an accident with a downed pole and wires. all lanes are closed down. street cleaning rules are in effect today. ken, back to you. >> thank you. >>> meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> sunshine. pretty weather. gorgeous today. a locally tug makes its way down the east river. temperature at 834 degrees. 23 bridgeport and teens to the north and west. so, this is a good start to the day. it will be very comfortable t