Doctors say stabbing victim was millimeters from death
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Posted: 7:11 PM Mar 5, 2010
Doctors say stabbing victim was millimeters from death
A trauma doctor says a Cadott woman was millimeters away from being killed. The man charged with stabbing her and two other people was in Chippewa County Court Friday. She and her daughter testified.
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A trauma doctor says a Cadott woman was millimeters away from being killed. The man charged with stabbing her and two other people was in Chippewa County Court Friday.

One of the victims, Lisa Flint, and her daughter testified. 38-year-old Daniel Tuttle is charged with 3-counts of attempted first- degree intentional homicide and two counts of burglary. The judge says there's enough evidence against him to stand trial.

An ER trauma doctor says one of Lisa Flint's wounds was millimeters away from a main artery. The doctor says if that was hit, Flint wouldn't have made it to the hospital

"So you woke up when a masked man covered your mouth? What happened next?,” asked Chippewa County District Attorney Jon Theisen during court Friday…”He slit my throat and I turned away because someone had opened my bedroom door. He went towards it and that's when I got up and escaped out the backdoor to my neighbors," says Flint.

Flint says she was shaken up and pounding on her neighbors door when she saw her daughter's ex-boyfriend Daniel Tuttle's van drive away. Tuttle is accused of stabbing Flint and two friends of his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Johnson, at a home near Cadott last September.

"After I opened up my mom's bedroom door I saw him get up and came forward to the bedroom and then that when I ran past and went to go grab my son," says Johnson.

Chippewa County Deputies say they found Tuttle semi conscious in his van near the scene. Investigators say it appears he tried to overdose. Johnson says deputies asked her to call Tuttle so they could try and track the phone he was using.

"I asked him why he did it (he said) I hurt him and now he had to hurt me by hurting the ones I loved," says Johnson.

Both Johnson and Flint say they couldn't see the person's face because that person was wearing a mask. They both told the court they recognized Tuttle's voice and the shape of his body.

Deputies say they found a black ski mask, a wallet, four cell phones and drug paraphernalia in Tuttle's van after the attack.