[Faline]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Shocking video is released as a woman walking into a store on Belmont Avenue Friday night with her four year old daughter is attacked by a man with a knife.

Springfield Police say that the man demanded the woman's purse but she ran away, but then the man grabbed the girl.

The girl also managed to get away so he went after the woman again.

As the woman tried to get in the store, he slammed the door on her and that was when stabbed her in the collar bone area, according to police.

The man took off but people on the street and in the store chased after the man. However, the suspect got away.

The woman was treated and released from Baystate Medical Center.

She and the other witnesses are now helping police track down the attacker.

[Faline]

Don't know what i find more disturbing...the man attacking a mother with a small child or the fact the mother ran off and left her daughter behind

[kellyhound]

she left her kid behind i mean so her damn purse with possibly her yap yap phone is more important than her daughter.

[Creepy]

omg! she used her kid as a shield, didn't she?

[PackingHeat]

I just think she reacted without thinking (since the knife was pointed at her, not her child), I don't think she thought, "shit, I'm gonna use my kid as a shield to cover my ass". Still, it's messed up to see that.

[Zahir82]

kELLY i was thinking the same thing. I guess she thought he was after her and not the child!

[Skott]

[TaintSniffer]

That guy needs to be dead

[Pyramid_Head]

She just ran off without her kid 0__0

[Spiffyfable]

What an Asshole