COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. (WOWT) – A Council Bluffs father said his children saved his life when a stranger broke into his home and stabbed him multiple times on Dec. 23.
Chad Opal had just returned from visiting his girlfriend in the hospital when he smelled something burning in a vacant home he owns next door. He saw a stranger sitting inside.
“I went over to check. It was some guy that was in my house. I said, ‘What are you doing?’ and I started calling the cops, and then he started stabbing me,” Opal said…