Staff member of U.S. Senator Rand Paul stabbed in D.C.

A employees member of U.S. Senator Rand Paul was significantly injured when he was “brutally attacked” by a person listening to voices in Washington, D.C, the lawmaker confirmed on Monday.

The employees member, whose identify has not been launched, was attacked at 5:17 p.m. on Saturday after he and another person left the Sol Mexican Grill on H Road within the jap a part of the capital.

Police responded to the scene and located the employees member affected by a number of stab wounds to his head and torso. He was rushed to a neighborhood hospital with life-threatening accidents. His present situation is unknown.

Police later arrested 42-year-old Glynn Neal, a neighborhood resident who was launched from jail only a day earlier, and charged him with Assault with Intent to Kill (Knife). Charging paperwork present that Neal instructed police that “voices” in his head instructed him to do it and there’s no indication that he knew the sufferer.

“[The witness] acknowledged that he and [the victim] had been strolling eastbound on the 1300 block of H Road when [Neal], who was hiding in a nook, popped out of the nook and proceeded to stab [the victim] with a knife a number of occasions,” police mentioned in an incident report.

Paul confirmed in a short assertion {that a} member of his employees was “brutally attacked in broad daylight” in Washington, D.C.

“I ask you to affix Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and full restoration, and thanking the primary responders, hospital employees and police for his or her diligent actions,” he mentioned. “At the moment we might ask for privateness so everybody can deal with therapeutic and restoration.”