Cadet Louis Ancheta pulled out his pocket knife and ran up to Jalloh while Shah wrestled him.
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“With my pocketknife, I open it, I run up, and as I’m running up, Colonel Shah lunges at the guy,” Ancheta said. “[Jalloh] shoots another stray, and it hits me. It really didn’t feel like it hit me. It felt like a graze. After that, I’m like, ‘I can keep on going.’”
Shah turned Jalloh around and gave Ancheta an opening to strike, the cadet said.
“I just go in there, and I start stabbing him,” Ancheta said. “As I’m stabbing him, other cadets jump in.”
It’s better to do something vs nothing.
If you think you’re going to die in a situation like that, at least die on your own terms.— RdM
