An Oregon man’s mother found out he got his throat slashed by a total stranger after watching a “news clip” about the brutal attack, which said he walked into a Denny’s restaurant with a cut so deep that his “trachea was exposed,” according to police.
“I … freaked out,” said Deborah Thomas, mom of victim Christopher Thomas, 33, in an interview with local CBS affiliate KOIN. “I’m very thankful that whoever was there, who saw, that helped him,” she told the outlet, in reference to Denny’s employees who reportedly rushed to help her son. “They saved his life.”
The person behind the alleged attack, Christopher Parkins, is charged with attempted murder, assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Police say he had a knife “concealed by his sleeve” with the handle in his hand when they took him into custody…