When crowds started running away from the scene during the brutal MAX train stabbings on Friday, Michael Kennedy ran toward it.
Kennedy, a former paramedic, was there on the train, one car away. He sprung into action and started helping Rick Best, one of the two victims who ultimately passed away.
"I realized that he wasn't breathing anymore and we were checking for a pulse and couldn't feel one. I started doing chest compressions on him," Kennedy said.
Kennedy said it was unlike anything he'd seen in his life.
"I've seen people getting killed before, I've seen car wrecks. I've seen all that. I have never seen or been prepared for two men getting knifed down in an attack," he said.
He tried; it just wasn't enough. But when Best died, he didn't die alone. Sometimes that's all you can do for another person.
The face of evil: 
The two guys he killed: 
And one of the two teenaged girls the perp went off on:
She's traumatized. Her mother did most of the talking, thanking the families of the guys who intervened: "I want to say thank you so much," she said. "I couldn't imagine what you're going through right now as far as losing someone."
Jeremy Christian, the suspect in the stabbings that killed two people and injured another Friday on a MAX train, was involved in a separate altercation with a woman at a TriMet station the day before the attack.
He should be given a fair trial, following his arraignment later today, and then fairly but thoroughly hanged.
Unfortunately, Oregon's governor from Minnesota opposes the death penalty, and so she refuses to enforce that law because she disagrees with it.
