Taunton Rampage Victim Was Tossed Around 'Like A Rag Doll'

TAUNTON (CBS) - A Macy's employee is giving a terrifying account of her violent struggle inside the store with Arthur DaRosa, the man authorities say went on a stabbing rampage in Taunton killing two people.

Jucelia Gleason says it was a horror scene inside the store after DaRosa drove his car into the store front. When she and coworkers heard the crash she thought someone needed their help and ran toward DaRosa, who she says violently turned on them.

"He grabbed my hair, grabbed my arm, my arm is really, really hurting," Gleason tells WBZ-TV. "He tossed me around like a rag doll."

She says she was dragged a few feet, and when a co-worker ran to help she was punched in the face. "I just started screaming and crying and then I thought he ran out of the door."

Others in the store were fortunate to get out of his path. But when he entered a nearby Bertucci's, authorities say he armed himself with a knife killing 56-year-old George Health who was trying to defend a waitress, 26-year-old Sheenah Savoy, who was under attack.

Gleason believes if DaRosa had a knife in Macy's the outcome would have been worse. "We were just lucky he wasn't armed when he entered the store," Gleason said. "The way he was acting violently toward us he would have used it."

Gleason says the ordeal has left her more than shaken and it will take some to get over the trauma. Prior to the Macy's crash authorities say he had abruptly left a soccer practice with his daughter, and began pounding on doors on Myricks Street, making his way into the home of 80-year-old Patricia Slavin who was stabbed and killed, her daughter Kathleen still hospitalized from her injuries.