The shocking moment a young woman attacked a deputy sheriff investigating a car crash with a knife, wounding him, fortunately lightly in the carotid artery, is captured in a video of the 22-year-old man's uniform released by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office on Florida's east coast.
According to the Independent, Deputy Sheriff Coudy Colangelo was called to the scene of a rollover accident at 11 p.m. last Wednesday night, but when he got there the car was empty. Eyewitnesses told the 22-year-old man that the driver, later identified as 21-year-old Leia Michelle Day, abandoned her car and ran towards the coast.
Ms. Day was visibly shaken when the young deputy spotted her and tried to talk to her, the Sheriff's Office said in a statement after the incident.
In the video released, the 22-year-old appears to be walking down some stairs approaching the crying woman, who was walking up and down near the water. "What's wrong with you?" the young woman is asked by the deputy sheriff's deputy upon seeing her in this state. "I don't know" she replies. "Were you just in a car accident?" He continues and the girl begins to walk away. The deputy sheriff tells her to stop and approaches her, asking her to climb the steps to get out of the water. "I don't want to, I'm scared," the woman can be heard saying before she finally complies with the 22-year-old's request and begins to climb the stairs. Suddenly, however, she turns sharply and stabs Colangelo.
According to the authorities' statement, the attack fortunately superficially injured the deputy sheriff's carotid artery. Ms. Day then fled after the attack, and the one bullet fired at her with his gun by the 22-year-old did not hit her. Applying pressure to his wound, Colangelo began following the assailant while calling for help over the radio. Day was later located and arrested.
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Mr. Colangelo had to undergo a two-hour surgery for his neck injury. He has now been discharged and is recovering at home. According to doctors, if the young man had not taken the precaution of applying pressure to the area after being shot, or if the knife had gone downhill stabbing his neck, it is very likely he would not have made it to the hospital alive.
21-year-old Leia Michelle Day is being held in the St. Lucie County Jail charged with attempted murder. Investigators in the case revealed that she was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs when she attacked the deputy sheriff with a knife.
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