Her heroism wasn’t included within the preliminary protection.
A Korean flight attendant is being heralded as a hero after risking her life to avoid wasting a nine-year-old boy.
On November 16, a person attacked a nine-year-old boy at a Target retailer in downtown Los Angeles. Although the motive is unknown, in keeping with police experiences, a homeless man took a nine-inch butcher knife from the shop, confronting the younger boy and reportedly telling him “he was going to stab him and kill him.”
The younger boy is reportedly starting bodily remedy and his household is assured “he will get through this.”
In preliminary news protection, the police reported that the suspect stabbed the kid within the again earlier than stabbing the 25-year-old flight attendant. The man was then fatally shot by a safety guard.
However, Lizzette Molina, a cousin of the younger boy, reported that the girl really “intervened to save my cousin’s life.”
It’s been stated that the 25-year-old lady who was stabbed within the chest intervened to avoid wasting my cousin’s life. God bless her soul. My prayers exit to her and my coronary heart to her household.
— Lizzette Molina through KTLA
A trauma nurse at USC who helped deal with the girl after the incident corroborated the story.
The native news experiences made it sound just like the boy and the girl had been two separate victims of the stabbing, however the lady was really attacked after she stepped in to guard the boy. It’s evident from her wound that she was attempting to protect another person.
— Trauma nurse at USC through Korea Daily
The nurse additionally defined that the girl wrapped the boy in her arms when the perpetrator began chasing after him. The lady was then stabbed over 5 instances within the again, on her facet, and above her chest. The nurse added that the girl had sustained some harm to her lungs, “risking her life” to avoid wasting the boy.
The nurse recalled the girl as “young and courageous, and especially calm.” According to the nurse, “The woman, even as she arrived at the hospital, told me that she is doing okay and that we should be saving other more critical patients first.” The nurse added, “I’ve never seen an emergency patient so calm and posed.”
After the news of the flight attendant’s heroism surfaced, netizens voiced their immense admiration for her bravery and composure.