Rockford man recounts distracting attacker now accused of killing 4
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- A Rockford man had a harrowing experience this week as he tried to distract an attacker – to keep his granddaughter who was in the house with him safe, and to try to stop the attacker from killing his longtime mail carrier.Craig Garr has lived in the same Rockford home for 45 years. He witnessed a man police have identified as Christian Ivan Soto stabbing his mail carrier, 49-year-old Jay Larson. Prosecutors said after stabbing Larson, Soto ran him over with a pickup truck.
If you'd have came here an hour ago before the fire trucks cleaned up, my car was still there all bashed in – and then there was blood everywhere in the driveway, on the porch, everywhere,' Garr said. 'My granddaughter's car was sitting behind mine, almost out by the curb, and blood splatter was on her roof. And the mailman was right up to the front of my porch, laying on the ground.'Garr said Larson had been his postal carrier for eight or nine years.
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