American hero stabbed in Sacramento bar

Jeff Schogol reports at Air Force Times,

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who helped take down a gunman on a train in Belgium, was stabbed four times in the chest in Sacramento early Thursday morning, Air Force Times has learned.

Stone is listed in serious condition at the University of California Davis Medical Center.


U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone shakes hands with the crowd during a parade honoring his August 21 actions in overpowering a Muslim terrorist on a Paris-bound train on September 11, 2015.

On Aug. 21, Stone and two friends Army Spc. Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, bravely disarmed and subdued a gunman on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. The gunman stabbed Stone about an inch-and-a-half from his carotid artery and nearly severed Stone's thumb during the struggle.

Stone later told reporters that he did not hesitate to charge the gunman even though he fully expected to be killed.

"I'm not going to run away," he told reporters on Sept. 15. "I'm not going to leave everyone to die. I'd rather die trying than sit back and watch everyone get slaughtered."

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