Remember the story we had last week of a scary knife attack on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope? The attacker has been caught. Per the New York Post:

A violent ex-con who had violated his parole in April was still free to brutally attack a professional dancer from Park Slope, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Russo, 32, allegedly stalked Diana Greiner, 39, along Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn at about 11:45 p.m. on June 17. Greiner, a dancer, told cops she was vaguely aware that Russo was following her, alternating between being in front of her and behind her, sources said.

Russo got in front of her outside 176 Sixth Ave. at Lincoln Place and bent down to tie his shoe. As she walked toward him, he sprang up and brandished a knife, the sources said. She covered her face, and Russo allegedly struck her in the head – fracturing her skull – slashed her face and body, then fled, authorities said. As cops interviewed Greiner at the hospital, she remembered she’d seen the psycho sneak into a bodega.

There are other details in the full story too.