WCCO - COURTESY WCCO, NO ACCESS MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL St. Cloud, Minnesota - 18 September 2016 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan Schliep, stabbing victim: “Every time you usually go into a mall or some type of building, there is a first set of doors, and then there might be some trash cans and seating, and then a second set of doors. And then you go through that set of doors, and then you’re in the mall. I was in that in between spot, that really small corridor. And then the guy walked in behind me, and I turned around and looked at him like, seriously guy? And then.” ++SOUNDBITE SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan Schliep, stabbing victim: “He didn’t say anything, just walked straight towards me. And I just got back from basic training from Georgia. So, I looked at the guy and I’m like okay I’m going to have to fist fight this guy, and I didn’t know he had a knife. And it was like, it looked like that like something was sticking out of his hand, maybe the length of my thumb. And then he just came up, i braced myself, side of head, fell down to the ground. I never went unconscious or anything like that. Kind of grabbed myself, and I’m like okay I’m on the ground. This is the worst that I can be in, and he was going to get on top of me or something. But, he didn’t say a single word - just walked right past me like a machine or something and walked into the mall. So, and then I got up. Another individual from outside came and he had been stabbed in the back multiple times. And then me and him went into the mall and followed the guy trying to stop him for like 15 meters. And then, by that point he was like heading north in the mall. He was so far gone, like he was heading towards Target. And, so I stopped following him. And then I turned around the other guy was there too. And then I could see I believe the store is Pink, or Victoria’s Secret, one of those two. And I felt my head - my hand was covered in blood. Blood was running down my neck and on my shirt. And I looked, there was no like official lockdown or alarm going off. There was no mall security anywhere. Everyone’s panicking. And I looked at the people in Victoria’s Secret and they just closed the gate right there. And I’m standing on the outside like, what am I going to do? I turned to the left, there’s a shoe store there. The guy closed his door and others, me and that other guy who’s been stabbed, his pregnant girlfriend who was attacked, walking by, and there’s a couple other individuals. And then I thought about where my girlfriend went because she was behind me when I got attacked. And that’s the reason I got up and followed the guy, because i thought that he’d go on and attack her potentially. And, so then at that point, I pulled out my cell phone and tried calling my girlfriend. She answered. She was in Forever 21, which is right there on the corner. And they have two doors and one they had already closed and locked, but the other one was wide open. So I went through that wide open door, and then they locked it. Someone there started helping me. The employees didn’t have like a medical kit or anything like that with them to help me or anything. Some random other citizen took clothing and tried to bandage my head, and then the ambulance came and they rushed me out, put me in with another individual who was stabbed. And then they rushed to the hospital, and we were probably there in less than five minutes.”