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The first time I met Kevin Cooper, I was 8 years old and he slit my throat. He hit me with a hatchet and put a hole
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in my skull. He stabbed me twice, which broke my ribs and collapsed one lung. I lived only because I stuck four
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fingers in my neck to slow the bleeding, but I was too weak to move. I laid there for 11 hours looking at my
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mother, who was right beside me. I know now he came through the sliding glass door and attacked my dad first.
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He was lying on the bed and was struck in the dark without warning with the hatchet and a knife.
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He was hit many times because there was a lot of blood on the wall and on his side of the bed.
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My mother screamed and Cooper came around the bed and started hitting her. Somehow my dad was able to struggle
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between the bed and the closet, but Cooper bludgeoned my father to death with the knife and hatchet,
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stabbing him 26 times and axing him 11.