WJAC | The Tribune-Democrat
Newspaper carriers Michael Rager and Robert Geisel II inserted a rare moment of humanity into an otherwise awful tale of a stabbing Tuesday in Johnstown, Pa.: They assisted a woman stabbed at a local car wash. Rager and Geisel were out delivering The (Johnstown, Pa.) Tribune-Democrat, Editor Eric Knopsnyder confirmed to Poynter in a phone call.
“I couldn’t do that, just drive off and not help,” Geisel told WJAC-TV. The victim, Elizabeth Ann Miller, later died. Both WJAC and the Tribune-Democrat (which didn’t identify the men in its story to help protect them, Knopsnyder said) report that Geisel was struck by a mirror on a truck driven by the man police suspect of stabbing her.
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