American soldier who stopped French train attack stabbed multiple times in
He was listed in serious condition after two hours of surgery.
In August, Stone received widespread acclaim as one of three Americans who helped to subdue a gunman aboard a high-speed Thalys train in France.
UC Davis Medical Center officials said his family appreciates the outpouring of support but is still requesting privacy.
Cain told KVOR Stone didn’t appear as hurt as he really was initially.
“We’re really hoping that additional witnesses or anyone involved comes forward”, he said.
The owner of a liquor store told CBS Scaremento that there could be five to six men that attacked Stone as showed in the video he managed to get during the incident. In an interview with CBS13 on Thursday, Cain said it appears the fight started over a girl and Stone was stabbed trying to defend her. The source said several of those in Mr Stone’s group – three women and another man – were drunk, but it was unclear if Mr Stone himself was inebriated.
Another surveillance video released by police shows the two suspects involved in the altercation running and getting into a vehicle that drives off quickly. No immediate arrests were made. “They knew each other or something; they had been hanging out before this happened”. “He is continuing to recover”, the hospital said in a statement.
The airman was conscious when he arrived at the hospital.
Police, meanwhile, collected surveillance video from The Depot, Badlands and Sidetrax bars down the block from the fight to see if Stone’s group or the other combatants were there before the fight, owner T.J. Bruce said.
After thwarting the train attack, Stone and his friends, all with roots in Sacramento, won accolades for their actions from the presidents of France and the United States, and were feted with a hometown parade. He had boarded the train with a Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol and a box cutter.
Stone, who is assigned to Travis Air Force Base in California, suffered a severely cut thumb and a knife wound to his neck in August when he and two childhood friends from Sacramento stopped a terror attack aboard a Paris-bound passenger train.
Last week, Skarlatos left rehearsals for TV’s “Dancing With the Stars” to rush back to Roseburg, Oregon, after a gunman killed nine people at the community college that Skarlatos attends.
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“We don’t know the extent of her involvement”.