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Today, the Daily News put Amarjit Singh on its cover and asks New Yorkers to help him. Who is Singh? He was the cook at the Texas Smokehouse BBQ in Murray Hill until October 6, when a mentally ill man, Lee Coleman, stormed into the kitchen and grabbed four knives. Singh tried to stop Coleman, but Coleman slashed him in the head before heading outside to repeatedly stab pedestrian Susan Barron. Coleman only stopped when an off-duty transit cop shot him.
Singh had chased Coleman onto Second Avenue and even brought out towels for Barron in spite of his injuries, and at the time, News columnist Michael Daly said the "city should be proud" of Singh. Now Singh tells the News how the incident has left him traumatized and jobless. The Texas Smokehouse BBQ has been closed since the incident, and while he "used to make $700 a week and sent about $1,500 a month to his four children in India," they now "rely on relatives."
Singh lost feeling on the left side of his face, lost hearing in his left ear (which the Daily News says "was nearly cut off"), and suffers from flashbacks and nightmares. He's also unable to walk very far without needing to rest and is "too scared to return to his rental apartment, just blocks from where he was attacked, so he now sleeps on the sofa in a friend's living room in Queens."
Singh's medical expenses paid by the NY State Crime Victims Board, but he told the News, "A lot of relatives are helping [my children], but how long they help? Not a long time. Now I'm living for free, but I cannot stay here always... People always say 'hero' but what is a hero? It means nothing."
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What I don't understand is why the restaurant has had to remain closed since the incident.
Any link to a help website or charity that has been set up?
Sad. How does he want help (I mean money, job, apt, etc?)?
Sounds like he has a case of PTSD. Hopefully, he gets the help that he needs mentally so he can get back on his feet.
All of this thanks to Lee Coleman!
This story deeply moves me as I have not been able to stop thinking
about the hero, Amarjit, who saved the life of the 67-year-old woman
named, Susan Barron.
I want to do something to help because I heard just recently he is unable
to find work and feed his 4 children. This shouldn't be.
New York is a great city - rich with opportunities.
If anyone has any ideas in which we, as, New Yorkers, can help....
please post on this blog.
Amarjit...New York City THANKS you. Officer Gregory Chin - I thank you for being
a good cop; a brave cop for you could have turned your head the other way
and continued your bistro conversation and avoid putting yourself in the line of fire...
if only we got to hear the many untold stories of N.Y.'s finest, such as yourself.
I know it would help to heal the wounds.
Many Thanksgiving to you both this holiday season,
Yves Marie Danie Baptiste
A Loyal New Yorker
P.S. If anyone knows where to send a "Be Well" card to Dr. Barron stabbed in this
incident kindly leave a post. We all wish you a speedy recovery & the very best
to your precious dog. I have one of *those*, too. :-)
Okay, I did something about it. Here's the story.
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