Volunteer EMT in Bedford-Stuyvesant allegedly stabbed by coworker

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (WABC) -- A volunteer EMT in Brooklyn apparently snapped and stabbed a fellow worker.

The victim says he's shocked because he's the one who helped get the suspect off the streets and trained her to become an EMT.

He says, they don't call him "Rocky Junior" for nothing and after the past 24 hours, it appears 37-year-old Rockel Robinson is right.

"I felt like I was just going pass out. My crew got me to the hospital on time. They did what they had to do," said Rockel Robinson, the stabbed EMT.

Rocky Junior, a volunteer EMT in Bedford-Stuyvesant was stabbed Thursday, allegedly by a 29-year-old woman.

Tyra Neptune is a fellow EMT trained by Rocky and his dad at the Bedford-Stuyvesant volunteer ambulance company, where they pride themselves on taking in young people who might otherwise die out on the streets.

"We're that street family only we save lives, we don't take them, and they like that," said Rocky Robinson, Sr., of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

Rocky Senior isn't kidding, but running this volunteer ambulance company carries plenty of risk.

Rocky Senior even took on the crack dealers on one block. The retired captain from the FDNY's EMS is on a mission.

"How do you stop the violence in New York City?" Eyewitness News asked.

"Jobs," Rocky Robinson, Sr. said. "That's why nobody else does this. You have to be a lunatic and I guess I am."

He says Tyra Neptune's life had recently taken a turn for the worse and the young mom was homeless, but she was one of them.

So the ambulance company gave her a place to stay, but Thursday night she allegedly became violent.

"And she stabbed me in my chest," Rocky Robinson, Jr. said. "And for this to happen to me from someone I thought was a friend, it's like you don't know who to trust no more, but I'm not going to change."

Rocky Junior's cadets gave him a salute when he left Woodhull Hospital Friday, but what his dad has given him is the type of perseverance he'll have the rest of his life.

"You're making the whole world proud of you," Rocky Robinson Sr. said.

"I'm still going to be helping people," Rocky Robinson Jr. said.

To help the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps. with their efforts please visit: http://bsvac.org/