A New York City girl was slashed in the neck and repeatedly punched in a violent attack by a convicted felon during a birthday mountain climbing journey in Arizona last week.

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

Alexis Rowan, 27, was violently attacked while on a mountain climbing journey in Arizona for her birthday. ABC7

“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 instructions to the reward store.

“I was like, oh my God, my neck. I can’t die like this, this is not the way,” she said.

“And I was like, I have my kids to go home to,” the 27-year-old mom added.

Rowan wanted 10 stitches in her neck and three stitches on her left hand following the violent assault. ABC7

The violent attack, in which Rowan was slashed in the neck and repeatedly punched, was caught on a Ring digital camera close by.

In the footage, Paya is seen making an attempt to drag the 27-year-old mom away after she fell to the floor.

The “sensless, unnecessary act of violence” was caught on a close by Ring digital camera. ABC7

After the brutal assault, Rowan required 10 stitches in her neck and three stitches on her left hand.

The 27-year-old’s mom, Tricia Rowan, shared about the “senseless, unnecessary act of violence” on a Havasupai Falls Facebook group on Aug. 15.

Rowan “fought for her life,” her mom Tricia Rowan shared on Facebook. ABC7

“This was a vicious, violent UNPROVOKED attack that almost took my daughter’s life!,” Tricia wrote. 

“Taylor Paya slit her throat, punched her repeatedly, pulled her hair, threw her to the ground & tried dragging her to who knows where!”

“Thankfully my daughter is a warrior & FOUGHT for HER LIFE! Screaming for help & begging for her life!,” Tricia added.

Rowan recalled the violent attack to ABC7 alongside her mother, Tricia. ABC7

Fortunately, a girl close by heard Rowan’s cries for assist and welcomed her inside her dwelling. 

“I’m just so grateful for the woman that opened the door that heard her screams, it’s something you can never unhear,” Tricia instructed ABC7.

“And she’s a fighter. She fought to make sure she’s coming home to her babies and she’s my baby,” Tricia added. “So I’m so glad she made it.”

A lady close by introduced Rowan into her dwelling after the attack. ABC7

The 29-year-old Havasupai tribe member — who has been beforehand convicted for theft — was tracked down and arrested the following day after Reservation police pinged Rowan’s stolen cellphone. 

As the alleged attack on Rowan took place on tribal land, Paya faces a federal cost of assault with lethal weapons, FOX10 reported. 

Court paperwork obtained by the outlet present that in Dec. 2015, Paya robbed a girl outside a dwelling where she was staying and admitted to ripping off several layers of the sufferer’s clothes before throwing her to the floor and punching her in the face and facet.

Paya was arrested after police traced his location by pinging Rowan’s cellphone he had stolen. ABC7

Paya pleaded responsible in Sept. 2016 and acquired a 5-year jail sentence as nicely as being ordered to bear intercourse offender remedy and counseling, the outlet reported.