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PATCHOGUE, Long Island (WABC) -- A man has been charged with attempted murder and assault in connection to a machete attack at a Dick's Sporting Goods on Long Island.
Treyvius Turnstall, 22, pleaded not guilty to the August 12 attack that happened on the first floor inside the sporting good store in Patchogue.
Surveillance video captured the viscous attack, as a customer stabbed a store manager in a black shirt repeatedly behind the shelves.
At one point, the suspect starts to walk away, then turns back and keeps stabbing him.
The manager tried to use a ladder as a barricade, according to investigators. The disturbing attack was unprovoked.
"I believe the manager asked him if there's anything he could help him with and then without provocation, or further comment without any comment, he just began attacking him," Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said.
Tierney says the viscous attack happened after Turnstall first entered a different Dick's Sporting Goods in Bayshore.