Five female students at Husson University rescued another female student on Wednesday by subduing a 45-year-old man who was allegedly trying to stab her on the campus of the Maine university, the Associated Press reported. One of the rescuers, Jesse Hladik, who had recently taken a self-defense class, grabbed the attacker’s hand holding the knife, while her friends helped pin him to the ground until the police arrived. The man now faces multiple charges, including attempted murder.
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9 Responses to Husson U. Students Rescue a Colleague by Subduing Knife-Wielding Man
22155974 - May 6, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Wonderful outcome. It may signal the need to require self-defense classes on all campuses, as well as CPR and financial literacy. osessi
amcneece - May 6, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Why would they want to subdue this poor guy and pin him to the ground if he was only “alledgedly” trying to stab her?
chandrak - May 6, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Hurray to these female students! More women should learn how to defend themselves and others.
greenhills73 - May 6, 2010 at 4:26 pm
amcneece – This is the standard way of reporting a crime until the accused has been formally convicted.
amcneece - May 6, 2010 at 6:21 pm
greenhills – I understand. By the way, did you know that there is an “alleged” oil spill in the Gulf?
megginson - May 7, 2010 at 7:26 am
Sorry, but greenhills is right. The oil spill analogy is flawed, since the oil spill isn’t sitting in jail while a defense attorney is scouring the papers looking for examples of how the poor client has already been “convicted in the press”.
goxewu - May 7, 2010 at 9:39 am
Sorry, but greenhills is wrong. The attempted stabbing is an observed fact and can, like the oil spill, be reported as such, sans “alleged.” What will be at issue in court is whether the suspect was attempting murder, legally insane at the time of the act, acting in self-defense, actually trying to help the victim pare her nails, or at home with mother while an extraterrestrial had shape-shifted into his replica. If we had to wait in every case for trial and conviction before we could say that an act occurred, then every murderer who also committed suicide would be forever an “alleged” murderer.
oldcommprof - May 7, 2010 at 10:21 am
Nice explanation, goxewu, and exactly right. Unfortunately, some of the others are correct about the way some papers handle such a story. But either it happened or it didn’t. Geez.Oldcommprof, J.D., Ph.D.
reference99 - May 7, 2010 at 12:16 pm
No, goxewu is wrong. From the reporter’s perspective, that the man was trying to stab someone is an allegation; it is not something he directly observed, it is a report of something he’s been told. “Allegedly trying to stab” is correct.