Former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan can recall his attack with clarity. "I told the dispatcher, this is Will Flanagan, I've been stabbed, I'm on Hartwell Street and it feels like I'm dying," Flanagan told WBZ-TV.

Flanagan had just left work at his cannabis dispensary in Fall River on October 20 , and was headed to buy Halloween candy at a nearby Walgreens, when he says he felt like he was being punched.

"I felt a thunderous impact to the side of my face and when I turned around there was a tall man who I had never saw before. He looked Hispanic with crazy hair and a crazy beard," Flanagan said. "He was saying some horrific things to me. What I can say on camera was he was telling me to die."

Stabbed on both sides of neck

Flanagan says the suspect stabbed him on both sides of his

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