Editor details staffer’s harrowing attack
Writes Chris Peck, editor of The Commercial Appeal: “A short 24 days after she was stabbed seven times in her own garage by a drug-crazed criminal, Vickie Patton quietly went back to work.
“‘I thought it would be better for me than sitting around at home,’ she said after her first day back.
“Patton, 50, sells advertising for the DeSoto Appeal, the daily Mississippi edition of this newspaper.
“Her story of random crime became ours.”