Christopher Barnard said the attacker, a stranger, lunged at him and his friend, Phillip Todd, with a knife. Barnard tackled the man from behind.
Barnard described those few seconds as a blur. He saw the man lunging toward them “kind of like in those scary movies when the knife is above his head.” He saw Todd put up his hands, trying to protect himself. He saw blood. He saw a brief opening between Todd and the man, which he seized to tackle the assailant from behind.“It all happened so fast, I feel like I didn’t have time to be scared in the moment,” he said. “But in the days after, it was like being stuck in a bad, surreal dream.
Neal’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment, and efforts to reach his family were not successful. As of Sunday, violent crime in D.C. was up one percent compared to the same time last year, driven in part by a 23 percent uptick in homicides. At a recent congressional hearing, D.C. Council member Charles Allen called the trends with homicides and carjackings troubling and of serious concern to District leaders. But council members have generally defended the blocked crime bill as equitable and just.
Barnard said he knelt on the sidewalk, his hand still on top of his friend’s broken head, and prayed.In the days since the attack, Todd — who was stabbed four times and suffered a punctured lung and potential brain bleeding, according to court documents — has undergone surgery and been released from the hospital, Barnard said.
Court records show that Neal had been convicted in 2011 of pandering, making threats to kidnap and other charges. He was sentenced to more than 12 years behind bars, with five subsequent years of supervised release, court records show.Neals was supposed to report to the federal Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency “no later than Monday, March 27,” according to a statement from an agency spokesperson.
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