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A man ambushed an elderly woman at random in Windsor, Ontario, stabbing her repeatedly in the face and leaving her screaming and bleeding on the sidewalk. She suffered serious injuries.
Jennyfer Demers, who helped the victim, said “She was screaming at the top of her lungs, like five or six times. When I came up I saw the guy running away, so I didn’t really get a clear picture of him. I helped her up off the ground and she was bleeding from her face and her eye area. There was blood everywhere. She was clearly shaken up. It happened so quickly, it was a shock. When I helped her up, the knife was sitting literally right there and there was blood on it. She was still screaming.”
Const. Andrew Drouillard said, “… [W]hat is disturbing about this, it appears to be some random act of violence. This male approached this elderly female from behind when she was walking and just assaulted her and took off from the scene. We don’t know what the motive is at this time.”
The attack happened outside a hair salon where Demers was working. She and some other women rushed out to help the woman and brought her into the salon. Employees had to clean up large pools of blood from the front of the salon after the paramedics took the woman away.
Police spent the afternoon scouring the Ottawa Street area for witnesses and surveillance cameras as they tried to piece together what happened. Police say they had the suspect in custody by 5 p.m.
Kim Spirou, who owns the hair salon where Demers was working at, was stunned when she watched the surveillance video, “He crossed the street very deliberately, you could tell he was targeting her. He caught up to her and stabbed her right in front of the salon.”
Four local schools were on lockdown Wednesday afternoon, and parents were picking up their children at the schools by 5 p.m, shortly after the attacker was found and apprehended.