‘You wanted to kill me,’ White Bear Lake man wrote to knife attacker, who received 7½

Mason Fike chose not to attend Friday’s sentencing of the man who repeatedly stabbed him on their White Bear Lake street just over a year ago.

Fike, now 22 and a senior at St. John’s University in Collegeville, said in his victim impact statement — read in a Ramsey County courtroom by his brother — that his decision was not because he was afraid of his attacker, Jeffrey Thomas Rice.

“I am simply done wasting my life and time being in the same room with someone as worthless as you,” the statement read. “I have never been afraid of you, and I never will be.”

Rice, 20, stabbed Fike in the chest, kidney, bladder, spleen, back and stomach after he stormed outside and confronted Fike, who was on a walk with his girlfriend in the early morning hours of July 27, 2024.

“That night, I know what