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The knife-wielding maniac who injured five people in a random rampage at Penn Station had \u201crage in his eyes,\u201d one of the victims recalled Monday \u2014 saying the horrifying encounter unfolded so quickly, he didn\u2019t even realize he had been stabbed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe went at me to kill me! I saw the rage in his eyes,\u201d Henry Obadiah, 60, an accountant from Long Branch, New Jersey who lives in Midtown, told The Post of the chilling, Sunday night attack.<\/p>\n

Obadiah found himself in the frenzied path of the alleged homeless attacker \u2014 identified by law enforcement sources as Hector Deleon, 51 \u2014 as he noticed two people tussling while making his way toward the station.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe crazy guy locked his eyes on me and just roundhoused me! Clocked me right in the face and I was like, \u2018what the f\u2013k?\u2019 And I heard the guy on the escalator say \u2018he\u2019s got a knife! He\u2019s got a knife!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t realize I had just been slashed in the face,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

Obadiah said he assumed he was just sucker-punched \u2014 until he saw the gash on his face when he looked at his reflection on his phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he just punched me. I felt my lip got busted and I saw the blood, but I took a look into my phone and saw the big cut in my face and I just ran up to the cop and said I just got attacked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Obadiah was one of five victims slashed or stabbed during the rampage around 7 p.m. Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

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After Obadiah told the cops he could identify his attacker, he walked with police along a \u201chuge trail of blood\u201d leading to the New Jersey Transit boarding area where he saw another victim who appeared to be in his 20s seated on the floor holding a bloody towel up to a gushing head wound as strangers tried to attend to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe paramedics showed up shortly thereafter. While they were telling me that they should take me to the hospital, all these cops started running past and screaming \u2018he stabbed someone else! He stabbed someone else!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Obadiah slammed the state of transit safety in the Big Apple, and the Mamdani administration\u2019s response to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething has to be done. The city is getting worse and worse and no one seems to care. This administration? Law and order isn\u2019t the priority! The attackers have more rights than the victims. It\u2019s not surprising that this happened and it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s going to change under this administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMost people are voting for this stuff and they\u2019re voting for, \u2018let\u2019s get rid of the police, the police got to stand down,\u2019 it\u2019s nuts! I want it to change, but not only for me but for the next victim of a crazy homeless guy that decides he had a bad day and he\u2019s going to kill a few people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspected attacker was said to be hospitalized Monday and had yet to be charged.<\/p>\n

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