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Posted on 08/19/2005 7:08:42 AM PDT by Millee
It was, at first, just a weird feeling.
"An abstraction," Marc Cohn called it. "There was a sense of danger. Something was unstable where we were."
Cohn, the Grammy-award winning musician, was heading back to the Monaco Hotel on 16th Street after he and his band had performed at the Denver Botanic Gardens on Aug. 7. It wasn't even midnight; far too early for things to feel so creepy.
Then Cohn heard the footsteps, sprinting, coming on fast. Almost as soon as he'd registered the guy, Cohn saw the gun in his hand, and nothing was abstract anymore. Not the shot. Not the van's windshield shattering around him. And not the blood, so much blood.
"It was all over my hands. And my clothes. And I realized I was the one who'd been hit," said Cohn, best known for his hit song Walking In Memphis.
Twelve days after he was shot in the head, Cohn is talking publicly about what happened to him in Denver. Tonight's episode of ABC's 2 0/20 - a program co-anchored by Cohn's wife, Elizabeth Vargas - features an interview with the couple, along with bandmate Shane Fontaine and road manager Thomas Dube.
Cohn describes the way time accordioned after the shot, moments alternately passing so fast they blurred; then lengthening and stretching unbearably.
"Every second that passed by, I thought, 'That's the last one. That's the last second I'll be here,' " Cohn says, according to a transcript of the 2 0/20 interview released by ABC.
But then he'd look around and realize he was still alive - and so he'd think it all over again.
"Please don't let me die," he thought. "I have children. I have a wife."
The others in the van, which careened wildly after the shot, running a red light and narrowly avoiding another vehicle, were going through the same sort of alternating fast-foward/slow-motion moments.
Fontaine screamed at Cohn to grab the wheel and the brake, and get the van under control. Dube heard Cohn say, "My God, I think I've been hit."
Fontaine looked at his friend.
"I could see a perfectly round hole in his head, which I knew had to be a bullet."
He could tell, Fontaine said, that Cohn was looking to him for reassurance.
He tried his best: "It's all right, man."
It didn't work.
"I've been traveling with Shane for seven or eight years," Cohn said, "so I know him pretty well . . . and his face said, 'It's not all right.' "
A scan at Denver Health Medical Center revealed a bullet beneath the skin of Cohn's right temple.
"Any more velocity could've fractured the skull, and another centimeter or two would've been into the brain. Had his head turned 5 degrees to the left, it could've easily gotten into his eye," Dr. Jason Haukoos said during the interview.
Joseph Yacteen, 26, is being held on $1 million bail in connection with the shooting and with three carjackings that same night. Patricia Vail, 23, was arrested two days later; police believe she was an accessory.
Cohn left the hospital a day after the shooting, but he and his wife said that the effects linger. Little things make him cry, he said.
Vargas added, "This is not something you just sort of go, 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on.' You don't just move on."
Which isn't to say the aftermath lacks humor.
Fontaine looked at the CT scan, at the way the bullet sat lodged just between skin and skull, and turned to Cohn with a brainstorm: "Wow. That's a great album cover."
"Might be time to put out a gospel album Marc."
Call it "Driving in Denver"
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What caliber was the pellet gun?
LOL!
There's very few Jewish gospel albums.
He was armed with the delusion that nothing would happen to him.
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