The dude just swung the knife at me for no apparent reason,” victim Rakeem Tayquon Young said from his hospital bed Sunday.

Rakeem Young, 34, was walking his dog, Chanel, in the Bronx on Friday, Jan. 24, when a man wielding a machete attacked him ...

A Bronx man is recovering in the hospital after he went out of his way to protect his beloved pup. Rakeem Young was out ...

A sweet and friendly pit bull named Chanel was missing her owner on Monday night. Rakeem Young is in the hospital after ...

The emotional reunion took place in Rakeem Tayquon Young’s room at Bellevue Hospital, where he is recovering from a 13-hour surgery to reattach the fingers that were sliced off his left hand.

Image via YouTube A New York man is in the hospital after protecting his dog from a machete-wielding attacker. He lost four ...

Rakeem Young, 34, has been hospitalized after a machete-wielding attacker severed four of his fingers while he was walking ...

Rakeem Young was walking his dog on Friday, Jan. 28, when they were attacked by a man wielding a machete The suspect threatened to chop off the dog's head, and Young reacted by protecting her ...

Rakeem Young is in the hospital — he is having three fingers surgically re-attached after a machete attack. “Trying to protect my dog, man, from these people out here that have no control ...

Rakeem Young, 34, was attacked while walking his 4-year-old pit bull Chanel near Southern Blvd. and E. 178th St. in East Tremont on Friday, Jan. 24, around 11:20 a.m. Young told the Daily News the ...