Three badly injured, Eagle helicopter dispatched after ‘altercation involving neighbours’ in South Auckland. Video / Hayden Woodward
A hero South Auckland couple who helped three people stabbed on a quiet suburban street can still hear the cries for help.
“It’s still in my mind, the shouting, [and begging] ‘Save us!” the Takanini woman told the Herald when describing Friday night’s on Kutukutu St.
She described how oneof the injured women begged for medical help to arrive faster.
“If I die, then who will look after my son,” the woman implored as she lay bleeding.
Other witnesses described blood everywhere, with another neighbour saying it “broke my heart” watching two young children walk behind their mother as she was pushed away on an ambulance trolley.
Witnesses yesterday said two women and a man were stabbed during the incident that spilled out of a house and onto the normally quiet street, filled with new-build townhouses.
“It’s shocking there was so much blood,” a neighbour said yesterday.
“It was a very bad scene: three were stabbed, the guy had multiple stab wounds over his arms, legs, and under the chest, and [a woman] was stabbed really badly in the stomach.”
Speaking today, the South Auckland couple told how they heroically intervened in the “terrifying” incident.
The Herald is unable to report the full details of their actions now that a man has been charged and the matter is due to go before the courts.
But both the husband and wife said they came out of their front door to a “really terrifying” scene.
“Our hands were shaking and we had no idea what to do,” the wife said.
The scene on Kutukutu Street in Takanini last night. Photo / Hayden Woodward
They immediately called the police and ambulance.
Once they were able to help the wounded, they gathered the three injured people in their driveway.
“They all came here and their children as well, so they were all covered with blood,” she said.
