Louie Suljovic and his dad intervened when they saw a 61-year-old woman of Korean descent in trouble. “We take care of our community,' he told TODAY.
Louie Suljovic and his dad intervened when they saw a 61-year-old woman of Korean descent in trouble. “We take care of our community," he told TODAY.
Louie Suljovic was working in his pizza shop Saturday night when he heard a shout from his father, Cazim. An older Asian woman had been robbed and stabbed outside the store in Queens, a borough of New York City. The 38-year-old and his father chased after the people who harmed the woman and fought back once they caught up to them. Cazim Suljovic was stabbed nine times and the younger Suljovic once next to his spine, puncturing his lung.— have lauded Louie Suljovic and his father as heroes for intervening in the attack."We're not going to let stuff like that happen," Louie Suljovic said."We take care of our community."She was stabbed once in the back through her jacket.
“That’s the way we were all grown up to be; if you see somebody, you have to help somebody,” she said.Her family is from Albania, and when they first arrived in the United States, they relied on their community to get through the struggles of settling in a new place. She said that her son, along with her other children, was raised to always help people, even strangers.
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