Lt. Jeff Neville, the police officer stabbed in the neck at a Michigan airport last month, says the maintenance man who jumped in to help him is a "hero."
If the man had not have been "walking beside me I wouldn't be here talking to you today. There's no doubt about it," Neville recalled today at a Fourth of July parade in Fenton, Michigan, according to ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ-TV.
"That's not his job" but the man "just reacted," Neville said, according to WXYZ. "And the way that he reacted was spectacular."
The incident happened at the Bishop International Airport in Flint June 21 when a Canadian man allegedly stabbed Neville outside the airport's TSA screening area, leaving the officer with a roughly 12-inch-long laceration from his Adam's apple to the back of his neck.
"It was an attack from the rear, it was very sudden," Neville said today. "There was no warning. It was very intense. Just a lot of noise and sudden action, and I truly think it was over in 10 seconds. ... That's how fast it happened."
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