Ex-con accused of slitting tourist’s throat known as local ‘neck slasher’

The ex-con accused of slitting a French tourist’s throat in a random attack in Harlem is a neighborhood “neck slasher” who’s ducked justice at least twice — infuriating one of his alleged victims, The Post has learned.

Khalief Young — who is charged in Friday’s horrific attack on Gabriel Bascou — was busted in June for a Harlem deli slashing, and in October for allegedly pummeling a woman inside his apartment building, according to police sources and court records obtained by The Post.

The first case is closed and sealed, and Young was cut loose without bail in the second, which is ongoing.

“If the law did what they should have done a year ago and they would have handed him the punishment he deserved maybe he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do it again,” said Benjamin Onwudiwe, the alleged victim in the earlier attack.

Young, 28, allegedly ran up behind Onwudiwe and cut his neck on May 22 inside the 2278 Deli & Grocery on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd and West 134th Street, sources said.

The 58-year-old pharmacist said his attacker, “was talking to the people in the store, and when he [was] getting ready to leave the store, all of a sudden, I was stabbed in the back.”

“I thought he cut me with his nail but then blood started gushing out and that’s when I realized I was stabbed.”

Onwudiwe said he never caught sight of his attacker, adding “no words were exchanged, nothing.”

He said he was left with two scars on his neck as a result of the attack.

“If it had went down a little bit more deep I wouldn’t be here talking,” said Onwudiwe, who works at Heritage Pharmacy & Surgical Supplies.

Police arrested Young and charged him with assault on June 27, sources said.

But Onwudiwe said that, after that, “nothing happened.”

“I was going back and forth with the District Attorney’s office but they never did anything.”

“All the district attorney told me [was] nothing could be done and [he] told me not to go back to that store and that’s how they ended the case,” he added.

“This time he stabbed a white guy — now everyone is interested.”

The Manhattan DA’s office refused to comment on the case.

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