Homeless man with 90 prior arrests charged with anti-gay slashing of victim standing at Queens taco
Homeless man with 90 prior arrests charged with anti-gay slashing of victim standing at Queens taco truck: ‘I get panic attacks that he actually killed me’
The arrest of a hate-spewing homeless man Thursday for his bloody knife attack on a gay man did nothing to calm the still-terrified victim’s nerves.
Victim Milton Lobos Salguero, 34, said he was both lucky to be alive and plagued by horrifying nightmares after the July 6 attack where a suspect with 90 prior arrests began spouting homophobic slurs before gashing him across the face.
Ramon Castro, free at the time of the attack despite a pair of late June arrests, allegedly called the victim a “Latino f----t” before slicing Salguero’s face.
“Think about it — if it was two inches lower he would have hit my neck and I wouldn’t be here,” Salguero told the Daily News on Thursday.
“I’d be dead lying on the floor. Everything gives me anxiety now ... I fall asleep at 6 a.m. I close my eyes and I see him — his face looking down at me.”
Salguero was in line with four friends at a Queens taco truck around 3:10 a.m. on July 6 when Castro, 55, began taunting the quintet as “Latino f----ts” and threatening to kill them, according to Salguero and cops. Castro then pulled his knife, leaving the helpless victim with facial wounds that required 16 stitches to close at Elmhurst Hospital.
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