A man walked up to a 13-year-old boy and slashed his throat in an unprovoked attack near Daytona Beach Pier on Valentine’s Day.
The boy miraculously survived the attack.
The boy’s father said he could see “all the way down to the meat” after a man slashed his son’s throat.
The Clarke family was walking down the boardwalk in Daytona Beach on Saturday when 44-year-old Jermaine Long approached 13-year-old Sullivan Clarke and intentionally sliced his throat.
“I thought he was stealing Sully’s phone,” the boy’s mother, Lori Clarke told Fox 35. “As soon as he slashed him, I yelled, and I said ‘Hey!”
“I could see his neck gashed wide open. I could see all the way down to the meat,” the boy’s father told a local Fox affiliate.
The boy recalled how he miraculously turned his head at the last second which is why the injury was not fatal.
“I turned at the perfect time… I happened to be looking up at the slingshot, and I turned. And that’s why he got the side of my neck,” the boy said.
Doctors said that if the gash was just one millimeter deeper the boy would have died.
Long is being held in jail without bond.
INSANE: 13-year-old Sullivan Clarke recounts his near-death experience with his family after he was slashed in the neck by Jermaine Long.
Sullivan’s father: “I could see his neck gashed wide open. I could see all the way down to the meat.”
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Police said they don’t know the reason for the unprovoked attack.
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