Texas Fire Chief Deemed Hero After Walmart Slashing

An off duty Texas fire chief had his neck slashed by a crazed employee at a Walmart store, but ignores his own injures to provide first aid to another stabbing victim.

FOX’s Tom Rigatti reports:

Princeton, Texas cops saying Mckinney, Texas Fire Battalion Chief George Cook is nothing short of a hero. Bleeding from the neck, he puts pressure on his own wound, gives first aid to the other stabbing victim, and directs fellow Walmart shoppers away from the danger.

( Jerry Varner) He was probably centimeters or millimeters from death.�

That’s Assistant Princeton Police Chief Jerry Varner, one of the officers who rushed to the scene.�Both Cook and the other victim were flown�to Plano Hospital where they are expected to recover,

Police have arrested a suspect who they say was wanted for going on a stabbing spree in another store.

Tom Rigatti, FOX�News