Former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan can recall his attack with clarity. “I told the dispatcher, this is Will Flanagan, I’ve been stabbed, I’m on Hartwell Street and it feels like I’m dying,” Flanagan told WBZ-TV.
Flanagan had just left work at his cannabis dispensary in Fall River on October 20, and was headed to buy Halloween candy at a nearby Walgreens, when he says he felt like he was being punched.
“I felt a thunderous impact to the side of my face and when I turned around there was a tall man who I had never saw before. He looked Hispanic with crazy hair and a crazy beard,” Flanagan said. “He was saying some horrific things to me. What I can say on camera was he was telling me to die.”
Stabbed on both sides of neck
Flanagan says the suspect stabbed him on both sides of his neck and one side of his head. Senior citizens sitting outside an apartment building across the street offered him napkins to stuff into his wounds. Flanagan says he decided to take a selfie of his blood-soaked face so that police could use it for evidence…