California teacher stabbed in neck while in Italy is returning home
With every rhythm of his heart, Nicholas Pellegrino 29 -year -old felt like another pump close to death.
The religious and Spanish teacher at the Archbishop of San Francisco Riordan High School was at the Sanato Milanese train station in Milan, Italy, Italy and was bleeding.
It was just before the afternoon on July 15, and Pellegrino had to be on a two -hour train to the southeast of Florence, but instead he understood the hope that an ambulance would come to save it in time. Showing photos taken on the station floor His chest and shorts were soaked with blood.
15 minutes later, the medical officials arrived and the staten -specific to a local hospital ran NY, where he somehow was brutally cut in the Bosphorus.
Authorities say the attack was carried out by a group of North African immigrants. Now, for more than a week, he was removed from what he described as “ISIS level barbarism ,, Pellegrino confirmed when he healed to return to New York on Thursday.
“Miracles are still happening,” he said in a telephone conversation on Wednesday evening. I’m grateful for being alive.
Nicholas Pellegrino is with athletes at Monsignor Farrell High School in New York, on the right. After the former students were attacked in Pellegrino Italy, they led the efforts to collect money.
(Finn McCole)
The train journey had to be a small beep on Pellegrino Day. Before the beginning of the autumn period, he left a set of friends in Northern Italy to join another in Tuscany about the Italian holiday.
A few minutes after boarding the train, Pellegrino said he was observed by four men sitting about 10 rows away from him.
According to Pellegrino, when he lowered his head, one stole his laptop, clothes and passports, cut his vein with a jackal.
One of them violently tears a golden cross hanging around Pellegrino’s neck.
“The bandits were not afraid of me,” Pellegrino said. “They were armed with Pocket Knives and had the intention of killing me.”
Pellegrino thought he would die from the train and to a nearby platform.
According to the authorities, the attack took place at 11:30. Pellegrino boarded the train at a previous station.
He said he thought two things in the moments after the attack.
“A, I was looking around to make sure the suspects wouldn’t come to finish me,” he said. “And then B, I felt that the blood was fully pumping every rhythm and hoped that the ambulance would come in time.”
According to the Italian media, Pellegrino ran to a nearby hospital and took emergencies to stabilize the wound. Later, nine stitches moved to an intensive care unit.
He was taken to hospital there from July 15 to Sunday, and then stayed with a friend until he was flying to the United States.
Today, the Italian newspaper Milano said that two 21 -year -old men were detained by the police on suspicion of aggravated robbery.
Pellegrino said he testified in court on Wednesday and that the couple is now facing the accusation of pre -determined murder attempt.
Authorized, the gold cross and chain of the suspect found in one of the intestinal roads, he said.
According to Milan Today, two come from Tunisia and part of a gang.
“The police told me that I was the seventh victim they attacked along a 48 -hour stretch,” Pellegrino said. “These crazy things; this is something from a movie.”
According to Milan Today, alleged perpetrators have escaped from the train platform, but it was defined by CCTV images.
The news output reported that two men were arrested while trying to get on a bus carrying a switch and stolen necklaces.
Pellegrino said the other two suspects standing during the attack were arrested.
The Italian authorities did not respond to a call from Times and did not respond to anyone from the American Consulate in Milan.
When the passport is still not healed, Pellegrino confirmed that a temporary passport was given to return home.
Pellegrino said, “These men have previously been told that they have served for six months in various other small robbers,” Pellegrino said. “These are bad people with malicious.”
Before working at San Francisco High School, Pellegrino was a teacher and track coach at Monsignor Farrell High School in Finn McCole, one of his friends and old students. Build a waof Pellegrino’s other former students.
“We are building this Gofundme to pay for the medical expenses that arise during the time of Nick’s hospital and change his lost valuables, Mc he wrote on the McCole page.
“Finn is a great man and an old student athlete, and we are still friends, Pel Pellegrino said. “I was surprised by this amount of money, and although only the teacher is ungrateful, it shows that students are longing and grateful for a role model.”
