A young man en route back home to Alabama with his wife was viciously attacked by an assailant with a hatchet that severed an artery in his neck as they waited at a bus stop in Tucson, Arizona.
Jacob Couch, 32, a father of two young teenagers, was waiting at the bus stop with his wife, Kristen, who said she and her husband had told the man they were leaving as Jacob bent over to pick up their luggage on April 5.
That’s the moment the alleged assailant, later identified as 25-year-old Daniel Michael, who had allegedly been yelling at the couple, according to court records—viciously attacked her husband, Kristen said, adding, “Seeing your husband get almost decapitated and being the only one to help like, it’s hard.”
“Looked at him and could tell he was agitated and told my husband don’t say anything else to him,” she said. “I told him we were leaving, like, okay, just…
