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New Video, Survivor’s Account Illuminate Traverse City Walmart Stabbing as Case Halts for Competency Review

Investigators are still seeking a motive, with the suspect held on $1 million bond at a psychiatric facility.

Suspect Bradford James Gille carries a knife while running inside a Walmart near Traverse City, Mich., on July 26.
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Overview

  • Surveillance video shows suspect Bradford James Gille, 42, moving through the store with a green backpack and stabbing shoppers before running toward the exit.
  • Cell phone footage and witnesses credit a crowd, including former Marine Derrick Perry, with restraining the attacker until police arrived.
  • Victim Aaron Boudot says he was stabbed five times and lost about three liters of blood before a shopper’s tourniquet likely saved his life.
  • Gille has pleaded not guilty to one count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder, and the court removed upcoming hearings after he was referred for a competency evaluation.
  • Hospital officials said the 11 injured victims, ages 29 to 84, included nine treated and released and two transferred, and all are expected to survive.