SCOTTSDALE, AZ (KPHO/KTVK/CNN) – Security guard is a job that comes with risks. Shoes, however, are not supposed to be one of them.
Aaron Walters was breaking up a late-night fight at the Scottsdale pizza joint where he works. It’s not completely uncommon after closing time at the nearby bars.
This time, though, he was attacked by a woman whose partner was being restrained by Walters. She came at him with her stiletto.
Kris Loring, 32, allegedly began hitting him from behind, and caught him in the eye.
“I thought I lost my eye that night,” Walters said. “The eye actually popped down low. It saved the eyeball and it closed up.”
Walters, 35, still has to squint through his right eye, almost two weeks after the incident. He said he was caught off guard by the shoe attack.
“I was kind of holding her husband or boyfriend down at the time, trying to keep him, to defuse it. And the next thing I know I got a stiletto in my eye,” he said.
Loring was arrested and now faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault.
Walters, who also works with homeless people through a local church ministry, said he has forgiven the woman and plans to see her in jail.
“There have been times in my life where I have been in some similar situations, where I was drunk and some bad things happen,” he said. “And I don’t wish harm on anybody at all. I want her to be okay and be safe. I don’t want her life wrecked. I don’t want her family ruined. I don’t want any of that stuff to happen.”
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