NYC Woman Who Desperately Searched For Help After Being Stabbed Multiple Times Dies

A 38-year-old woman who was found bleeding from multiple stab wounds in a public housing complex in New York has died.

The profusely bleeding woman made it down 16 stories in one of the buildings of the complex in East Harlem to seek help Wednesday morning. She then went up three stories in another building, police said.

She left a trail of blood on the stairwell, a hallway and the elevators of both buildings before she knocked on the door of a third-floor apartment at NYCHA's Wagner Houses, reported the New York Daily News.

According to a resident, she heard the plea of the woman who knocked on the door of her apartment just before the police arrived.

"I didn't really think anything of it because we get junkies in here," the resident told the outlet. "When the officer opened my door, she [the victim] was lying right next to my door. She was conscious but she kept dozing off, and they kept waking her up."

It was found that the woman, who has not been publicly identified by police, had been stabbed multiple times. She was taken to Harlem Hospital, where she eventually succumbed to her injuries, reported WNBC.

Based on the building residents' statements, the woman did not live in the complex. However, the woman was seen there a couple of times with a tenant, who was invited by the authorities for questioning.

"We first started seeing her Monday," said the resident who heard the woman's pleas. "Then we saw her yesterday, and today she's dead."

Police have not yet made any arrests in connection with the case and are still searching for surveillance footage that might help identify a suspect.

Neighbors believe that the victim was looking for the fourth-floor tenant with whom she was last seen and might have gotten off on the wrong floor.

"Nothing like that goes on in the building," resident Bernard Green, 51, told the New York Daily News. "Usually we get characters in the building because they're trying to find a place to get some rest for a little while."

According to the building's residents, homeless people often slept on the 16th-floor stairwell of the building where the woman was stabbed.