Brave woman speaks out after her face was slashed in random knife attack

A Brooklyn woman, 24, who was viciously slashed in the face on her daily commute to work says her attacker 'wanted to scar her.'

Pretty Amanda Morris was walking along Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on the way to her job at Chelsea Whole Foods when she became aware of a 'suspicious' man ahead of her.

The attacker had slowed down to let her pass him but turned and lunged at her, slashing a blade across her face.

Covered in blood, she ran into the nearby 24-hour Malibu Diner on Seventh Avenue near West 24th Street for help, saying she was attacked on the sidewalk. 

Morris said on her Facebook page today that she'd had a bad 'gut feeling' about the stranger, who

appeared to her to be drunk or on drugs, from the moment she spotted him.

Today was a difficult day that I never thought I would have to go through,' she wrote. 'I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.'

'He wanted to scar me, and that's why he went for my face,' she told NY Post.  

The Whole Foods employee was on her way to work at about 5.30am in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York when she was slashed.

'I felt like I got punched in the face,' she told the newspaper. 'It was like, 'oh that's weird, why would someone punch me?' Suddenly blood was all over my hands, and I started crying.'

Morris ran into the diner for help, saying she was attacked on the sidewalk, where clientele and staff confirmed the wound must have been done with a knife or razor. 

'I was freaking out, and I didn't really know what to do,' she added.

Witnesses said she appeared to have facial injuries and that she was bleeding, according to NBC New York.

'She was bleeding a lot, she was crying she walked in and she said that somebody slashed her in the face,' Alex Ramirez, who works at Malibu Diner, told CBS New York. 

'She said that she was walking by going to her job and and then a person came out from out of nowhere,' Ramirez added. 

Morris (pictured before the attack) ran into the nearby 24-hour Malibu Diner on Seventh Avenue near West 24th Street for help, saying she was attacked on the sidewalk