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Brooklyn Face Slashing Victim: "Violence is Not the Way"
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Mar 21, 2010
Modified Mar 21, 2010
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"My face is too beautiful to be fighting," Shantayah Lewis told reporters from a bed in Kings County Hospital. "Fighting is not the key. Violence is not the way." On Friday the 17-year-old and her 15-year-old cousin were targeted by at least one aggressive assailant on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, reports the News. Lewis said she and Shakeena Grant were out near Lincoln Place around 3:30 p.m. when they noticed a girl they knew behind them. "She kept following us," the victim said, adding that the girl was dating the ex-boyfriend of another one of their cousins. "She wanted to fight."
The was a brief altercation between the three and the girl said she’d be back for more. Around 5 p.m. she made good on her promise, pulling up in car, driven her boyfriend. "She swung and started stabbing my face," said Lewis. "I didn't know what to do." Grant was also stabbed, but was released from the hospital yesterday; Lewis is still recovering after doctors stitched up the giant V-shaped gash that covers one whole side of her face. "Basically, [Shakeena] fought for her sister," she said, referring to the cousin, who used to date the violent girl's boyfriend. "She should not have done that. We should not have been involved."
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