I think we all have a nightmare scenario that we fear so much, we try not to think about it. My dad once described his as being slowly stabbed through the heart, a scene which I recently witnessed the aftermath.
Listening to the police scanner, a man was said to be “down.” More often then not, a person down is simply someone drunk or who has fallen. But very quickly a call was made out to the CALSTAR helicopter to medevac a stabbing victim to a Bay Area hospital. The man had apparently been down in the street with two puncture wounds in his chest. The EMTs described it as, “possibly from a screwdriver.”
As CALSTAR flight nurses transferred the victim into the helicopter, the pouring rain pelting down woke him. He struggled with the flight nurses, trying to tear away his IV and oxygen mask. The man pleaded inaudible requests, as the sound from the helicopter’s rotors drowned out every sound. They eventually had to tie him down to a stretcher.
Cmdr. Tracy Molfino from the Salinas Police Department said they do not know who may have stabbed the man, and are looking for any possible witness or tips to the crime.
I described the scene to my dad, who is also an old emergency room doctor. “That is his nightmare scenario,” he replied.
Anyone with information can call anonymously to the Monterey County Tip Line at 1-888-833-4847 or submit information online by using their Report Crime Tips Online Anonymously Form. 
by cjay
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