NYPD Police Officer Ken Healley was critically hurt when a hatchet-wielding stranger ambushed him and three colleagues as they posed for a photo in Queens last fall tells NBC 4 New York in his first comments since the brazen attack he thought he was going to die.
Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, and three other NYPD officers were on patrol on Jamaica Avenue in October when they stopped to let a freelance photographer take their photo. As the officers posed for the photo, a man named Zale Thompson (a Pro-ISIS Muslim convert) charged them with an 18-inch hatchet, gashing Healey in the head and wounding another officer in the arm.
“You know, one second you’re taking a picture and the next, you know, I’m staring at my skull on the floor in a puddle of blood,” Healey said. “I had no idea why it happened.”
Watch the interview here.
