In a story I bet you haven't heard on any national news outlet, a man is being held on a $1 million bond after police say he randomly attacked another man with a hatchet in downtown Tucson, Arizona earlier this month, leaving the victim - a husband and father of two - with likely fatal injuries.
Jacob Couch, 32, was sitting with his wife on a bench at a bus stop at the corner of Sixth and Broadway at around 10 a.m. on April 5 when 25-year-old Daniel Michael - the “alleged” assailant - reportedly walked up and started yelling at them. Couch’s wife, Kristen, said the couple began to walk away from the man when he attacked.
"I told the man, 'We're leaving,' and my husband bent down to, I guess, like get our stuff and he just came up behind him. And just [hit my husband with the hatchet] and walked away," Kristen told local reporters.
Couch and his wife were on their way home to Alabama after vacationing in California and had stopped in Tucson along the way, just to see the city. The couple had gone on the trip to get away for a while following the death of their son, who was stillborn in May of 2024, and were trying to make their way home to their 15- and 13-year-old daughters.
The attack was so brutal that it severed an artery in Couch’s neck and went all the way to his skull, landing him on life support at a local hospital.
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Michael, who was found and arrested three days later, has been so far charged with aggravated assault with a dangerous instrument and causing serious physical injury. He reportedly told police he’d been drinking and didn’t remember anything at the time of the attack, but did confirm he was the person on the bus station’s surveillance footage. Michael later changed is story and told police he remembered confronting Couch, but didn’t give details on why he attacked him.
Couch’s wife, in the meantime, has been left wondering why this guy was walking around downtown with a hatchet at 10 in the morning and why he decided to attack them.
Couch, who remains on life support, is not expected to survive. A GoFundMe set up for his family has reached nearly $21,000.
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