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Recovery from terror: Mom of stabbed Chattanooga teen testifies in attacker’s Pittsburgh trial

Allison Meadows talks Saturday about being stabbed while shopping at a Target store in Pittsburgh, Pa. in this file photo.
Allison Meadows talks Saturday about being stabbed while shopping at a Target store in Pittsburgh, Pa. in this file photo. Allison Meadows talks Saturday about being stabbed while shopping at a Target store in Pittsburgh, Pa. in this file photo.

The defense attorney had no questions for Allison Meadows or her mother.

In March 2013, Meadows was stabbed multiple times in a Pittsburgh, Pa., Target store. She and her family, who at the time had traveled from their home in Chattanooga to visit relatives, returned to Pennsylvania last week to testify against the homeless, mentally ill man who attacked her and several others.

Allison’s mother, Sharon, told jurors how Leon Walls grabbed her daughter from the checkout lane and began stabbing her. She spoke about the brawl that ensued as bystanders worked to free Allison, then 16.

Allison’s father, Glen Meadows, spoke Friday about the trial while the family was preparing to return home.

He said Walls’ lawyers didn’t cross-examine his wife at all.