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In reply to the discussion: Passengers watched killing on Metro car. Should they have intervened? [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)"I was on the train car when he was attacked. My wife and I were sitting in the front of the car (the attack happened in the middle), and we noticed only when someone ran past us into the next car. My wife noticed the knife, and went into the next car to tell the driver (it was the second car from the front), so she went and banged on the driver's window. I only saw it being a fight, so I hit the call button to tell the driver. This almost cost me my life, as in the time it took for me to stand up and hit the button, the assailant had walked up to me. It was only once he got close that I saw the knife. He told me to shut up, which I did, raising my hands. Amazingly, he did not kill me. He walked a bit away from me, and I ran past him to the other side of the car. He then, almost as an afterthought, robbed the older couple. He then assaulted Kevin again, and when the train pulled up to the station, got off. My wife was the one on 911, getting people to go downstairs to meet the police. Metro workers got on the train and told everyone to get off and not to touch Kevin, but my wife relayed instructions from 911 that someone needed to sit with him and try to keep him awake. I sat with Kevin, held his hand, stroked his head and kept telling him to breathe, and that he was going to see the fireworks next year. I sat with him until he died. By the time the paramedics showed up, he had stopped breathing."
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