Tonight Saturday (May 20 2023) “48 Hours” Ongsiako talks with contributor Jim Axelrod about her inspirational story of survival and her efforts to help other victims of random violence.
The May 20 edition of “48 Hours” airs at 10PM ET/PT on CBS. Donna Ongsiako was home alone in her Colts Neck, N.J., home after midnight when she heard a noise downstairs near the door. She thought that she forgot to let the cat back in. When she opened the door, her life changed forever. There was a young man with a knife, who pushed his way in and began to repeatedly stab her. Ongsiako talks with contributor Jim Axelrod about her inspirational story of survival and her efforts to help other victims of random violence in 48 HOURS: “A Stabbing in Colts Neck”
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The assailant asked for her car keys and a lighter. He then stabbed her one last time in the chest and soon took off, leaving her for dead. Ongsiako dialed 911 and was able to give a description of her attacker.
“I lost in total, close to three-quarters of the blood in my body,” Ongsiako tells Axelrod. “There’s no earthly reason why I’m alive. None.”
A tip would lead them to a local teen named Brennan Doyle. He was just 16 years old and had no criminal record.
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