The New York Metropolis mom of two who was violently slashed by an ex-con throughout a climbing journey in Arizona informed The Submit the brutal assault occurred so quick that every one she realized was that “the whole lot was bloody.”
“All I keep in mind is the neck slice,” 27-year-old Alexis Rowan informed The Submit of being horrifically attacked on Aug. 12 by native tribe member Taylor Nardo Paya, 29 — who has a chilling historical past of violently assaulting girls.
“I didn’t really feel my hand get stabbed,” she mentioned. “I used to be like the place am I bleeding from as a result of my hand was coated in blood.”
“My garments [were] coated in blood … .the whole lot was bloody.”
Alexis thought she “was going to die alone” simply sooner or later earlier than her twenty seventh birthday after Paya sliced her neck and hand on the Havasupai Reservation moments after she requested him for instructions.
“As soon as I felt [my] neck acquired sliced, I used to be like, that’s it,” she recalled to The Submit of her harrowing near-death expertise.
“All I do know is like this isn’t the best way I’m going out, like this isn’t the best way I’m ending my life,” Alexis added.
Luckily, a close-by neighbor heard Alexis’ cries for assist and raced out to supply support.
“The girl was that angel despatched from heaven. If it wasn’t for her God solely is aware of,” Alexis mentioned. “I had blood throughout her home.”
“She saved my life. Her opening the door made this man [run] away, scared him away.”
“Persons are evil,” Rowan’s mother Tricia Rowan mentioned. “You may’t repair him. Individuals like that deserves to by no means see the sunshine of day and stroll free.”
Tricia mentioned that “you can not rehabilitate” folks like Paya who she describes as being “a menace to society.”
“There isn’t a place on earth that they belong, apart from behind bars like an animal in a cage as a result of they’re predators they usually prey on harmless victims,” Tricia mentioned.
On-line courtroom information present that the knife-wielding maniac has a prolonged rap sheet of prior misdemeanor offenses in Arizona along with a stint in jail.
Paya was sentenced to 5 years behind bars and ordered to endure intercourse offender remedy and counseling after he pleaded responsible in Sep. 2016 to robbing and assaulting a lady in Dec. 2015, FOX10 reported.
The 29-year-old ex-con was arrested on the Reservation the day after the assault and was taken into federal custody on Aug. 17 as a result of the assault occurred on tribal land, in response to Tricia and the outlet.
“So if he comes out, what subsequent? Somebody doesn’t survive. We’re simply fortunate that she fought again and the cameras caught [the assault],” Tricia mentioned.
Alexis mentioned the “subsequent particular person might not be as sturdy, might not be ready mentally that somebody goes to assault them or capable of put them at risk.’
The mother of two recalled being “mentally conscious” that she “was at risk [and] not protected” after her preliminary interplay with Paya.
“My intestine intuition was like, ‘this isn’t okay. I’m not okay,’” Alexis defined.
Trying towards the New York Metropolis skyline, Alexis informed The Submit she “by no means desires to take a look at one other mountain once more” after what occurred in Arizona.
“I’m again with my family members – my household, my kids and simply New York Metropolis as a complete,” Alexis mentioned of her homecoming.
Whereas Paya stays in custody, Tricia mentioned she is “not going to let this go.”
“I’m that mother. Don’t mess with my infants,” she warned. “I cannot cease till justice is served.”
Greater than every week on from the bloody assault, Alexis is on the street to restoration after she acquired 10 stitches in her neck and three stitches on her left hand.
“He picked the improper one. My daughter is a fighter, she is a warrior,” Tricia proudly mentioned. “She wasn’t going to take it.”
