Marty Ray Davis helped attempt t rescue Brian S. Shefler from assault, Boring, Oregon, July 4, 1993. Shefler, 23, was visiting his girlfriend in her and her stepfather’s house when, without provocation, the girlfriend’s stepfather began to stab him. The girlfriend ran from the house and alerted a neighbor, Davis, 31, millwright. Davis responded to the house, then entered and saw the assailant stabbing Shefler on a stairway landing. After the girlfriend ran down the stairs and attempted to pull the assailant off Shefler, Davis descended the stairs, grasped the assailant’s knife hand, and released the knife from the assailant’s grasp. He then took the knife from the house and secured it. The assailant left the house but was detained by Davis and another neighbor until he was apprehended by police, who arrived shortly. Shefler died of his stab wounds. 68604-7854
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