Would you divorce your spouse if they showed empathy towards someone that tried to kill your child?

Kyli Watts, 24, was walking in North Hollywood about 11:30 a. m. Oct. 10 when 30-year-old Jonathan Cole allegedly rammed the tool with 4-inch blades into the back of her head for no apparent reason, police said.

Kyli Watts (left) and her mother, Amy Watts.
Kyli Watts (left) and her mother, Amy Watts.

The LA woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a homeless man stabbed her in the head with gardening shears FaceTimed her mom after the brutal attack — and her first words were: “Mom, this is serious, I’ve been stabbed!”

With the shears still embedded in her skull, Watts ran to a nearby restaurant, where she called 911 and FaceTimed her mother, Amy Watts, a psychiatric nurse in North Carolina.

Her mother, Amy Watts, said they’d been a foster family for 15 years, and had experience taking care of people suffering from severe mental illnesses.

“She understands this is a very sick person,” her mother said.


“This is a problem that we as a society have to look at and figure out what’s next,” she said. “Because this is just going to continue to get worse.”

“If this were a person with epilepsy that had not taken their medication and had a seizure at the wheel and hit your child crossing the street, would you really be angry, or do you understand that that’s a person with an illness?” Amy said.

“That’s what we’re dealing with here,” added the longtime foster parent whose family has experience with the severely mentally ill.

Watts underwent surgery for a traumatic brain injury and remains in the hospital. She faces a difficult road to recovery, and will likely face more long-term issues with her balance and vision as a result.

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center had to leave a bone fragment in place after the shear shattered her skull because it was very close to a major blood vessel — meaning removing it would have been too dangerous, Amy told the station.

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