Posted: Sat 4:25 PM, Feb 19, 2005
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Reporter: Chris Duffy
Updated: Sat 4:32 PM, Feb 19, 2005
Former Stout Football Player plays Good Samaritan
A former UW-Stout All-Conference defensive back helped tackle and wrestle a knife away from a hijacker on a bus Thursday.
Tyrone Rhone Jr. was on his way to Sioux Falls, SD to try out for their arena football team.
Rhone, saw a woman crying on the bus, and later holding a knife to the driver's throat..
He called 911, and when officers caught up to the bus..
Rhone and another passenger rushed the woman..
Grabbing the knife away by the blade.
He cut his hand, but he will fully recover.
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