KANSAS CITY, MO (KSHB/CNN) - Surveillance video captured a violent encounter between two passengers earlier this week on a city bus in Missouri that sent one man crashing through a bus window.
One moment Daron Clay is listening to music, and the next he's fending off an armed man. "I seen him pull the knife out of his pocket, I was just like I have to fight for my life,” Clay said.
Clay was also worried about the mother and her two children across from him. “I didn't want her to get hurt. I didn't want the kids to get hurt. I knew that I was going to get stabbed, but you know I just had to fight for my life," Clay said.
The 21-year-old man pushed the knife-wielding man toward the front of the bus. As the driver slammed the brakes, the suspect goes right through the windshield. The knife was in the suspect's right hand.
He ends up using it to stab Clay once before the driver opens the doors. "This never happened before anytime on the bus,” Clay said.
The video of the attack drew several reactions from bus riders. It disgusted some of them. “To act like and be like that and want to try to commit violence or some type of interactions like that, to me that's just pure ignorance, purely disrespectful," Sean Cannon said.
Police have arrested the knife-wielding man as Clay recovers from his stab wound. He says he doesn't regret what he did to protect himself and others on the bus. "If it seems like it's getting out hand just back off. Some things you can't get yourself out of, but just make sure you be safe about it. You never know what can happen,” Clay said.
Clay said doctors told him he's recovering faster than they expected. Meanwhile, charges in this case are pending.
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