A New York City woman was slashed in the neck and repeatedly punched in a violent attack by a convicted felon during a birthday hiking trip in Arizona last week.

Alexis Rowan, 27, was attacked by a local tribe member she had asked for directions after she completed 8 miles of a 10-mile hike on the Havasupai Reservation in The Grand Canyon State last Wednesday, ABC7 reported.

“And as soon as I felt my neck, I’m like, ‘oh my God, I’m going to die,’” Rowan recalled of Havasupai tribe member Taylor Nardo Paya, 29, attacking her from behind after she approached him for directions to the gift shop.

“I was like, oh my God, my neck. I can’t die like…

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