Will Flanagan, the former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, said he was "inches from death" after he was brutally stabbed last week.

Flanagan was jumped and stabbed several times on Hartwell Street back on October 20 , not far from the marijuana dispensary he owns. He was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford.

Corree Gonzales, 31, of Fall River, was arrested the next day and charged in the attack. He's being held for a mental health evaluation. Current Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan said Gonzales has "severe mental health issues."

"Face to face with death"

"I came face to face with death. A man, lost in psychosis, stabbed me multiple times - in my face, in my body, and in my neck. I can still feel the weight of those moments. The sound. The fear. The realization that I

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