Woman Stabbed By Ex Marries Firefighter Who Helped Her

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A Florida couple who will marry in March will end a relationship at the altar that began with a tragedy.

Melissa Dohme met her fiancé, Cameron Hill, when she desperately called the emergency service after being stabbed 32 times by an ex-boyfriend in January 2012. Hill was one of the firefighters who came to her aid that terrible day.

The young woman received injuries to her neck, arms, face, and hand for who had been her romantic partner since high school. The first episode of domestic violence was experienced in 2011. The individual was imprisoned for 10 hours.

"For the next few months, he left me alone. I learned through social media that I had another girlfriend, so I thought I had forgotten," Dohme told the BBC.

"But on January 24, 2012 he called me at 2 in the morning. He told me that he had gone to court that morning, on the charge of domestic violence, that he needed to close the chapter of our terrible relationship and that he just wanted a hug If I saw him one more time, he would leave me alone forever, "he added.

It was in that encounter that the ex-boyfriend took out the knife with which he attacked her. After being found guilty, she is serving a life sentence.

The path to a new life with the firefighter who rescued her

The romance between the couple began 10 months after the attack, when Dohme was invited to the fire station to meet the team that came to her rescue.

"I was greatly admired because I was dining with all the men who saved my life," she said. "The more I learned from Cameron, the more I realized that we have a lot in common, and this feeling was not just because he was someone who had saved me."

Facebook / Melissa Dohme

Since then, Hill supported her and was by her side during the months she went between surgeries and physical therapy to recover from her injuries. He even accompanied her during the trial in which her attacker was convicted.

Her now-betrothed proposed to her in front of thousands of people during a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game. The link is scheduled for March 17.

After her tragic experience, Dohme explained that she now feels the call to be an ambassador against domestic violence. She has shared her story through her social networks and in talks in secondary schools and colleges with the aim of raising awareness about the need to prevent and report attacks like the one she suffered.