'His trachea was exposed': Woman whose son walked into a Denny's with throat slashed by total stranger had no idea until she 'watched the news,' reports say

An Oregon man's parent recovered retired helium got his pharynx slashed by a full alien aft watching a "news clip" astir the brutal attack, which said helium walked into a Denny's edifice with a chopped truthful heavy that his "trachea was exposed," according to police.

"I … freaked out," said Deborah Thomas, ma of unfortunate Christopher Thomas, 33, successful an interrogation with section CBS affiliate KOIN. "I'm precise thankful that whoever was there, who saw, that helped him," she told the outlet, successful notation to Denny's employees who reportedly rushed to assistance her son. "They saved his life."

The idiosyncratic down the alleged attack, Christopher Parkins, is charged with attempted murder, battle and unlawful usage of a weapon. Police accidental helium had a knife "concealed by his sleeve" with the grip successful his manus erstwhile they took him into custody.

Christopher Thomas stumbled into a Denny's connected North Center Avenue successful Portland aft Parkins randomly attacked him successful a adjacent portion promenade parking lot, according to his parent and cops. Police accidental Parkins told investigators helium had conscionable go stateless and was awake for respective days portion utilizing methamphetamine and drinking whiskey earlier the slashing.

"Everything feels similar it's not real, similar real," Parkins allegedly said, according to tribunal documents obtained by The Oregonian. The documents allege that the "slash to the victim's pharynx was truthful deep, his trachea was exposed," per the section newspaper.

"I heard that helium came up from down Christopher," Deborah Thomas told KOIN. "Blindsided him."

Christopher Thomas underwent country and is presently recovering. His ma credits the unit astatine Denny's for rushing to prevention his life.

"If it would person been immoderate longer, helium would person bled to death," she said. "There are precise very bully people, and I'm truthful thankful for them."

Parkins is being held without enslaved and has a preventative detention proceeding scheduled for May 4.