At the stabbing scene in Gangdong-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 4th, it was ordinary citizens passing by who subdued the suspect and rescued the victims.
According to Yonhap News, at around 10:20 a.m. on this day, at the office of the Cheonho-dong Street Housing Maintenance Association, Mr. Jo, in his 60s, brandished a weapon at two female employees, including the general secretary, Mr. A, in his 50s, and a man in his 70s, the temporary union president.
During the incident, one female victim ran out of the building bleeding, but Mr. Cho followed her and attempted to continue the attack.
At this time, Mr. B, a man in his 50s who was passing the scene on his way to work, saw the victim holding his neck and shouting, “I was stabbed. Please help me.”
Mr. B, wearing a suit, immediately got out of the car, checked the victim’s condition, and called 119.
At that moment, Mr. Cho with murderous eyes appeared in front of Mr. B.
Mr. B, who had an intuition that ‘that man is trying to harm the lady,’ immediately knocked Mr. Cho down and subdued him by pressing his knee on his chest and grabbing his arms.
Another resident, Song Won-young (31), who saw this, put the weapon away and grabbed Cho’s feet.
Mr. B recalled, “It was a situation where a person could get hurt, so my body literally moved immediately instinctively,” and “I thought for a moment that I might get stabbed, but I decided that the woman could get hurt more.”
Mr. Cho struggled for a while and muttered, “It’s over. I’m losing strength, so please let me go,” but Mr. B refused to let him go, saying, “It will only end when the police come.”
Mr. Song searched for other victims with the police who were dispatched after receiving the report.
He said, “When I knocked on the blood-soaked door, there was no sound for a while, and then I heard a small voice say, ‘Are you the police?’” and “I shouted loudly, ‘The police are here, open the door quickly,’ and when I went in, I saw the victims bleeding.”
Mr. B, who returned to work as soon as the police arrived, said he breathed a sigh of relief when he belatedly heard that none of the victims were in danger of life.
Mr. B refused to reveal his name and face, saying, “I don’t like being widely known.”
The perpetrator of the deadly weapon attack was the former union president who was dismissed for sexual harassment.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cho was revealed to be a former union president who was dismissed after reporting sexual harassment.
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