‘I said my goodbyes’: Survivor recalls mass stabbing at Michigan Walmart
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Aaron Boudot thought he was going to die.
It was July 26, and moments before, Boudot had shielded his wife from a stranger’s blade during a terrifying knife attack at a Michigan Walmart. So, that stranger — later identified as Bradford James Gille — began slashing him, slicing an artery in his right arm and stabbing him in the back, Boudout recalled.
“Ilostthreelitersofbloodindefinitelylessthan40seconds,”saidBoudot,41,inhisfirstinterviewaboutthemassstabbingthatleft11peopleinjured.“Iwasn’tgoingtolastlong.Isaidmygoodbyes.”
Thankstoanotherstrangerwhoquicklytiedatourniquet“inexactlytherightplace,”Boudotsaid,thosegoodbyeswerepremature.
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