PORTLAND, OR (KATU/CNN) – Two people were killed in an attack on a Portland, OR, train Friday. Another man was wounded, surviving, thanks to the help of a stranger.
Micah Fletcher suffered a wound to the neck, and stumbled out of the train onto the platform holding his throat with blood seeping out between his fingers – and straight into the arms of his rescuer.
Marcus Knipe, who is a veteran of the Iraqi war said the first thing to come to his mind is that he knew how to care for him until help arrived.
Margie Fletcher, the victim’s mom, was overcome when she met the man who saved her son’s life.
“If he hadn’t have been there,” Margie Fletcher said, pausing and gathering herself to complete the sentence, “then there would be three dead people today.”
Marcus Knipe was standing on the trail platform when the train pulled up and Micah Fletcher stumbled bleeding out of the car.
Knipe calmed Micah Fletcher down, called for help and called Fletcher’s mother, to let her know that her son had been stabbed but was on the way to the hospital.”
The stranger was now a hero.
“I just couldn’t be any more grateful,” she said.
The stabbing suspect, Jeremy Christian, 35, is in custody.
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