{"id":2202,"date":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/hero-friend-helped-save-rand-paul-staffer-recalls-shocking-attack-pure-random-violence\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","slug":"hero-friend-helped-save-rand-paul-staffer-recalls-shocking-attack-pure-random-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/hero-friend-helped-save-rand-paul-staffer-recalls-shocking-attack-pure-random-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero friend who helped save Rand Paul staffer recalls shocking attack: 'Pure, random violence'"},"content":{"rendered":"
A friend who sprang into action when a staffer to Sen. Rand Paul<\/a> was stabbed in a daytime ambush in Washington, D.C., opened up to Tucker Carlson on the shocking attack.<\/p>\n Phillip Todd was stabbed multiple times in what’s being called a random act of violence by a suspect released from prison just the day before.<\/p>\n “This was certainly one of the scariest moments of my life,” his friend Chris Barnard told “Tucker Carlson Tonight”<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n RAND PAUL STAFFER’S FRIEND DETAILS ATTACK: ‘HE’S AN ABSOLUTE CHAMP… WAS ABLE TO RUN DESPITE BEING STABBED’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Phillip Todd, a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul, was stabbed in March in Washington, D.C.<\/span> (Courtesy of the Todd family)<\/span><\/p>\n Barnard told Carlson he and Todd were leaving a restaurant on a busy Saturday afternoon in nation’s capital<\/a> when a “looming figure with a hood on” stabbed Todd four times. While Todd fought back, Barnard said he “saw an opening” and tacked the attacker to the ground, allowing Todd to run to safety. <\/p>\n “It was just an act of complete and pure random violence in broad daylight in the middle of D.C.,” Barnard said, adding there were “hundreds” of people around who were left in complete shock by what was unfolding.<\/p>\n “It all happened so quickly\u2026 people didn’t react, they kind of just stood there and looked,” he added. “I was shouting for someone to call 911, for someone to bring something to put on his head which was gushing with blood onto the street, and people were just kind of staring\u2026 you don’t expect to see a stabbing in your capital city in broad daylight.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n