A Queens man whose fiancée is on trial for slicing him up with a samurai sword was left so bloodied by the attack that EMTs struggled to get his slick body onto a stretcher, a first responder said Wednesday.
“The person is covered in blood and every time we tried to pick him up he was just slippery. Essentially dead weight. Wet dead weight, it was a little challenging,” EMT Ryan Walsh told Queens Supreme Court during the trial of Karla Barba, the former girlfriend of disgraced pol Hiram Monserrate.
“The patient was obviously sliced with an oversized knife of some sort.”
Barba’s fiance-turned-victim Franklin Larrea was “unresponsive” and “laying prone on the ground with lacerations on his body” when the EMTs arrived at their Jackson Heights home, Walsh said.
He had two cuts on his body, one of which was 6 inches across the forearm and with “white showing, which could have been bone or ligament,” Walsh said.
Later Monday, jurors were shown photos of the gory wounds — which showed a deep gash near Larrea’s elbow and a fleshy flap of skin hanging off his wrist.
A police officer who responded to the scene compared the wrist gash to a peeled banana.
“Like when you peel a banana. The skin was peeled back it was very deep … it peeled back the skin significantly enough that you could see muscle, fat and tissue,” said NYPD Lt. Steven Weiss, who was the commanding officer of the 115th precinct at the time.
Barba — who was herself attacked by Monserrate in 2008 when she dated the former state senator — is facing charges of assault, attempted assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Additional reporting by Ruth Brown