Tessa Trotter came home from work on July 1 with plans to bring her two boys, ages 8 and 5, to her twin sister’s house when she says her husband, Zachary Mowel, stabbed her and began beating her. He then doused her with gasoline and left her and the house to burn, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said .
“He stood and watched me and kept telling me I was going to die in this house slowly,” Trotter told NewsNation’s “Banfield.”
Tessa Trotter spoke with NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield from her hospital bed following the brutal attack. NewsNation
The brutal beating took place in front of the two horrified kids, their mom said. “They’re screaming, ‘Please, don’t kill mommy. Please, daddy, please, daddy, stop,” Trotter told host Ashleigh Banfield from her hospital bed, alongside her mom, Tina.
“I thought I was dead,” Trotter said. “And the only thing I was thinking about were my boys and what would happen to them.”
But two good Samaritans, Ralph Grayson and his son, Clay, were across the street from Trotter’s home when they heard the commotion and ran inside her house to drag Tessa out.
“I’m glad that you have a chance to be in your boys’ life, and I’m glad you’re making the recovery you’re making,” Clay Grayson told her. “Whenever you come home or get out of the hospital, we can sure have something to do with one another.”
Zachary Mowel was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, arson and domestic assault. Dickson County Sheriff’s Office
In addition to nine stab wounds, a collapsed lung, third-degree burns all over her right leg and had all of her ribs broken, Trotter is paralyzed from the waist down, according to a GoFundMe page started by her sister.
The fundraiser has already raised nearly $70,000 to help the family with medical bills and living expenses.
Mowel, 28, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated arson and aggravated assault and domestic assault, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.
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