‘You are all I had’: MARTA bus driver reunites with grandmother he saved from stabbing
When a grandmother and a MARTA bus driver reunited Wednesday for the first time since he helped save her from being stabbed to death on the side of the road, she summed up her gratitude in five words.
“You are all I had.”
Terri Bradley, 63, told Channel 2 Action News she wouldn’t be alive if Winston Douglas hadn’t parked his bus on Ormond Street in southwest Atlanta, grabbed a stick and beat the woman’s alleged attacker Sept. 9.
Douglas, along with bus passenger Montez Daugherty, then hogtied the alleged attacker, Gerald Jones, 20, with an orange extension cord until police arrived, the news station reported.
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A witness previously told Channel 2 that Bradley was stabbed 22 times, and she was bleeding from her neck when paramedics arrived. She was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with “several lacerations to her right ear, neck, right bicep, right palm and right thigh,” according to a police report.
“I am not a hero,” Douglas said, attempting to hold his composure. “I was just doing what I felt God wanted me to do.”
Bradley told the news station that God was with her that day, and she’s so glad Douglas was there to assist him.
“He put his life on the line for me,” she said.
Jones is charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery and possession of a knife during a felony, Fulton County Jail records show. He remains in jail without bond.
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