A woman is opening up after she was brutally attacked and stabbed just outside her home in downtown Miami last week, leaving her partially blind.
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Nothing has been the same for Caitlin Dydzuhn since the morning she walked out of her Marina Blue home along Northeast 8th Street and Biscayne on Tuesday, May 19.
“He attacked me from behind. I had no idea it was going to happen,” Dydzuhn said. “There was no way to defend myself from that; he just flattened me. He pinned me down and started punching me and stabbing me, and hitting my head into the pavement.”
Dydzuhn screamed for help over and over, worried she wouldn’t survive.
“I was prepared to die in that moment,” she said. “I was calculating how many more punches can I take?”
Then, a good Samaritan fought off the attacker and brought her to safety.
“All of a sudden, I was covered in my own blood and running for my life,” Dydzuhn said.
Miami Police arrested 49-year-old Raydean Johnson after a three-hour standoff with officers, who had to use a taser to take him into custody.
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Now Dydzuhn is looking to file a negligent security lawsuit against Marina Blue.
“The building has a security responsibility to protect their residents,” attorney Judd Rosen said. “There’s no security at all on the perimeter; there’s no one paying attention. Where were they?”
Dydzuhn suffered cuts to her face. She needed surgery for the most serious injury to her left eye, which has left her partially blind.
Now she’s afraid to walk out of her own building by herself and walk around Miami, something she used to enjoy.
“After being brutally attacked right outside my own building, it’s hard to imagine, and it makes me very sad,” she said.
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NBC6 reached out to Marina Blue for comment and are waiting to hear back.
Johnson is now charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery.