CAMBRIDGE - Dean Carr was at work in the gun store he owns when a man attacked him with a knife, injuring him badly.

He says the man who attacked him Saturday morning was a stranger.

"This was a random act of violence carried out by an obviously disturbed individual," Carr said after he was knifed inside Select Shooting Supplies, on Argyle Street in downtown Preston.

"He could have targeted anyone, anywhere. He just happened to walk into our store."

Carr was taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital, bleeding from the head from several injuries according to police radio calls.

"While I was badly injured, my wounds will heal and I expect to make a full recovery," Carr said.

Carr said others inside the gun store moved quickly to help restrain the man until police arrived.

Radio calls reveal a police officer got one handcuff on the armed assailant before the attacker fled out the store's back door and onto King Street.

"He's got a knife!" the officer said on his radio. "We lost control of him. He's got one cuff on him. He just went out the back door toward King."

The officer told a dispatcher: "He's demanding to be shot by police."

The suspect walked northbound along King Street. Police followed him.

"It looks like he's trying to cut himself," an officer said on his radio.

Three minutes later police arrested a suspect and asked a dispatcher to speed more paramedics to the scene.

"He's bleeding rather heavily from the throat," an officer said about the suspect.

The suspect was taken to a Hamilton hospital, the Cambridge fire department said.

The alleged attacker is 19. Neither the police nor the Special Investigations Unit have identified him. The SIU is a provincial watchdog agency investigating the incident.

In a statement Tuesday, Carr thanked others in the store, police who responded, firefighters, paramedics, and doctors and nurses at the Cambridge hospital.

"We am extremely grateful for the overwhelming support that we have received from customers, vendors, fellow retailers in the industry and the local Preston business community," he said.

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