'I thought he was going to kill me': Elderly woman explains how she survived knife attack
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An elderly woman says she’s lucky to be alive after surviving a stabbing attack while walking her dog near her east London Ont. home on Monday morning.
An elderly woman says she’s lucky to be alive after surviving a stabbing attack while walking her dog near her east London Ont. home on Monday morning.
“This guy come running down that way behind me and got me down on the ground, pushed me down on the ground, and he started hitting me with a knife, put the knife inside me,” said Betty O’Loughlin, 78.
Betty stands all of four feet eleven inches in height, and is “90 pounds soaking wet,” she said.
At about 6:30 a.m. Monday, she was walking her senior dog, 14-year-old Kilo, outside of her apartment building at Brydges Street and Ashland Avenue. That’s when she said that a man attacked her with a knife, knocking her to the ground, stabbing her several times.
“The guy looked like he was on something, he was on dope. Didn’t even say nothin’. I said, ‘Would you mind getting off of me?’ He was right on top of me,” she recounted.
The man eventually fled on foot. Betty went back inside on her own, where family friend Travis Kicks called 911.
“I’m surprised she was even walking around, and talking, like all that… wounds… six wounds in her. I don’t know… It’s just… It was scary, to be honest,” said Kicks.
