Tyron Holder remains hospitalized more than a week after a quick stop for a protein drink at a downtown Indianapolis gas station turned into a deadly encounter.
Holder, a U.S. Postal Service driver, says he was walking into the store he frequents because it’s close to work when John Bouvier Green Jr. passed him and snapped, “What the [expletive] you looking at?”
Assuming Green was a troublemaker wanting attention, Holder said, “just leave,” because he didn’t have the energy for a confrontation. He said Green told him to come outside to fight before spitting on Holder, who pulled out his pepper spray.
As the two were in the store’s doorway, Holder said he didn’t know what happened, but something was wrong.
“I felt my body deflate, and I was numb,” Holder told IndyStar. “It didn’t hurt. I’ve never been stabbed or shot before, but I lost power in my body.”
Holder saw a knife, and because he used to wrestle in high school, he ended up wrestling Green to the ground outside the store, holding Green’s wrist to prevent getting stabbed.
He kept telling Green to let go of the knife, and bystanders started recording the altercation. Holder can be heard on video reviewed by IndyStar yelling “call 911” as Green is profusely bleeding while pinned by the postal worker. Another man is seen kicking something out of Green’s reach.
