Her daughter, Alexis, survived a death-defying, neck-slashing attack Wednesday, Aug. 19, in northern Arizona’s Havasupai Indian Reservation, and they are using the moment to warn women, Americans, and even their kids\/grandkids (5 and 7) of what “literal screaming for your life is; that is what fighting for your life” truly sounds like.<\/p>\n
“She is a true example of what it means to make the noise so someone comes to your rescue,” Tricia Rowan said. “Never just take anything laying down, like scream, fight and she did it. She’s a warrior.”<\/p>\n
WITNESSES RECOUNT ‘SCARY’ NYC STABBING AFTER SUSPECT ALLEGEDLY YELLED ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’ DURING ATTACKS<\/a><\/p>\n Alexis Rowan admitted she needed nearly a week to rehear and rewatch the attack recorded on a nearby Ring camera, but she is resolute in using the moment now and not shielding her young children from the scars left by the shocking Arizona hiking-trail attack that nearly took her life.<\/p>\n “It’s, you know, right there \u2013 and especially before like I had all the stitches in it,” Alexis Rowan said. “So, of course, they look at me and it’s the first thing they see.”<\/p>\n THREE SCHOOL SAFETY STEPS EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW BEFORE CLASSES BEGIN<\/a><\/p>\n Ring camera footage captures a hiker, 27, in the Arizona mountains fighting for her life from the ground below a neck-slashing attacker, who only flees with a nearby woman comes out of the door after hearing her harrowing screams for help. (FOX 10 Phoenix)<\/p>\n “I like my kids to be aware like just like I was always raised: You have to be aware of your surroundings; I’m not going to sit and lie to them because things like this does happen in life.<\/p>\n “You see it on the news, you see anything, ‘oh my God, that can never happen.’ No, it could happen, so I always tell my kids: You have to pay attention.<\/p>\n JO FROST CALLS OUT MODERN PARENTING MISTAKES SHE SAYS ARE ROBBING CHILDREN OF BASIC LIFE SKILLS<\/a><\/p>\n Ring camera footage showed Arizona mountain hiker Alexis Rowan, 27, fighting her attacker, who had just slashed her neck with a knife, causing her to bleed profusely. (FOX 10 Phoenix\/Ring)<\/p>\n “Living in New York City, always be aware, like pay attention from everywhere. Just be aware.<\/p>\n “Even though, yes, they are little,” she continued, “but they need to be aware that things like this can happen.<\/p>\n “You can’t panic. We have to think smart, make a decision… be aware.”<\/p>\n FBI HEADQUARTERS WELCOMES UFC FIGHTERS FOR TRAINING SESSIONS AHEAD OF HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE MMA EVENT<\/a><\/p>\n Federal police usher the neck-slashing suspect off after arresting him using the pings to the cellphone he reportedly stole from Alexis Rowan, 27, video from local authorities showed. (FOX 10 Phoenix)<\/p>\n The 27-year-old New York City mother was hiking through the Havasupai Reservation<\/a> when she said a man came up behind her and slashed her neck after she asked him for directions to a gift shop.<\/p>\n Her fight versus flight sensed something was “not right.”<\/p>\n The man, following her at a distance, led her to call home because she was afraid, telling the person on the line that she was not safe when he asked if she was.<\/p>\n ALASKA RUNNER HOSPITALIZED AFTER USING BEAR SPRAY TO FIGHT OFF BROWN BEAR ON ALASKA TRAIL<\/a><\/p>\n “As soon as I said, ‘No,’ the man came behind me and sliced my own neck,” Rowan said, sharing a photo that showed the deep gash in her neck as Ring camera footage showed the blood flowing over her and her 60 pounds of hiking gear.<\/p>\n The attack became a blur, she said, as she feared she was bleeding to death.<\/p>\n “I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to die. Like, I can\u2019t die like this. Like, I have my kids to go home to. Like, they need me,\u2019” Alexis Rowan recalled. “This is not the way I\u2019m gonna die.<\/p>\n “All of these thoughts are like running through my head.”<\/p>\n SUSPECT ALLEGEDLY SPAT ON WOMAN BEFORE TACKLING HER IN LATE-NIGHT STORE ATTACK NEAR UPENN CAMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n Alexis Rowan, 27, is holding her slashed and bloodied neck as she walks up to the home of the woman that came out of the house to scare off her attacker, saving her life, Ring camera footage showed. (FOX 10 Phoenix\/Ring)<\/p>\n A woman from the nearby gift shop came outside after hearing the commotion, Ring camera footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed, frightening off the attacker and ushering her into the home to wait for help.<\/p>\n The Rowans called the woman who saved her life a hero. That woman in the gift shop wanted to remain anonymous. She personally knew the reservation member, and knew he was a dangerous man with an alleged history of preying on women in the reservation, perhaps why she initially came out of the door before briefly retreating.<\/p>\n Tricia Rowan said the instinct to fight had long been a central lesson in their family.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s always about self-protection, self-awareness and never go down without a fight \u2014 whatever it takes \u2014 and always scream,” she said. “I was so proud of the warrior that she was for screaming for her life.”<\/p>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/nyc-hiker-stabbed-az.gif\")
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