MORE: Suspect in Wisconsin river stabbing rampage that killed teen, injured 4 others held on $1M bail One or two doctors in the audience also went on stage to help provide medical assistance, he said. "People in the audience had gone up on the stage when they saw this and then grabbed the attacker, who still had a knife, I think," he told the station. Stein said when the attacker started to run off the stage following the assault he was apprehended with the help of a handful of attendees.
I was just thinking, am I really seeing this?" "Somebody just ran up on stage," he said. John Stein told WJET he was worried about security given Rushdie's notoriety. "He rushed the stage, it looked like he was punching him," Patrick Fogarty told Erie, Pennsylvania, ABC affiliate WJET. Those in the audience expressed shock at the attack. We will continue to be working to keep that tradition going."
Chautauqua has always been an extremely safe place. "This has never happened in our entire history. "We'll continue to look at providing the maximum security that we can," Hill said. He was treated for a facial injury at a nearby hospital and has since been released, police said.Ĭhautauqua Institution president Michael Hill said during Friday's press briefing that security "has been a top priority," and that they had a state trooper and sheriff presence at the event. The interviewer, Henry Reese, 73, suffered a minor head injury during the attack, police said.
In the aftermath of the attack, Rushdie, 75, was seen being tended to while on the stage.
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