NYC mom of two recalls near-death slashing by ex-con in Arizona: everything was bloody

The New York City mother of two who was violently slashed by an ex-con during a hiking trip in Arizona told The Post the brutal attack happened so fast that all she realized was that “everything was bloody.”“All I remember is the neck slice,” 27-year-old Alexis Rowan told The Post of being horrifically attacked on Aug.12 by local tribe member Taylor Nardo Paya, 29 — who has a chilling history of violently assaulting women.“I didn’t feel my hand get stabbed,” she said.

“I was like where am I bleeding from because my hand was covered in blood.”“My clothes [were] covered in blood … .everything was bloody.”Alexis thought she “was going to die alone” just one day before her 27th birthday after Paya sliced her neck and hand on the Havasupai Reservation moments after she asked him for directions.“Once I felt [my] neck got sliced, I was like, that’s it,” she recalled to The Post of her harrowing near-death experience.“All I know is like this is not the way I’m going out, like this is not the way I’m ending my life,” Alexis added. Fortunately, a nearby neighbor heard Alexis’ cries for help and raced out to provide aid.“The lady was that angel sent from heaven.

If it wasn’t for her God only knows,” Alexis said.“I had blood all over her house.”“She saved my life.

Her opening the door made this man [run] away, scared him away.”“People are evil,” Rowan’s mom Tricia Rowan said.“You can’t fix him.

People like that deserves to never see the light of day and walk free.”Tricia said that “you cannot rehabilitate” people like Paya who she describes as being “a threat to society.”“There is no place on earth that they belong, other than behind bars like an animal in a cage because they’re predators and they prey on innocent victims,” Tricia said. Online court records show that the knife-wielding maniac has a lengthy rap sheet of prior misdemeanor offenses in Arizona in addition to a stint in pris...