The cop stabbed in the head while trying to detain a raging suspect testified Wednesday that it felt like he’d been hit with a bat, as his wife wept in the gallery.
“I noticed he was getting a little irate,” said Det. Eder Loor in Manhattan Supreme Court. “I went to hold his left side and I just remember seeing his arm go over Merisme’s (his former partner) head and hit me right on the head. I felt like I was hit with a bat.”
Terrance Hale, 29, had plunged a jagged 3 1/2-inch blade into Loor’s brain after he and his partner responded to a 911 call of an emotionally disturbed person April 17, 2012.
Hale’s mother told the operator her son was bipolar, off his medication and acting erratic.
As Loor, 31, entered the courtroom in a halting step, his wife, Dina, burst into sobs and continued crying throughout his testimony.
He showed jurors a massive surgical scar that runs from the top of his forehead to the back of his head and loops around to his left ear.
The brave cop, who miraculously survived, said he continues to struggle with chronic pain and cognitive deficits as a result of the attack.
“My face just keeps on hurting me like needles stabbing my face,” he said.
He also has difficulty with short-term memory loss and multitasking. He has been on medical leave since the attack.
In earlier testimony EMT Linda Faustip described for jurors Loor’s traumatic injury.
“He removed the towel and blood started spurting all over me and the ambulance,” she said. “I immediately put the trauma dressing in addition to the towel on to maintain enough pressure and told my partner we have to go fast.”
After the debilitating attack, Loor’s wife joined the police academy to continue in his footsteps.