The Latest: Doctors: Officer stabbed at airport recovering

Rachael Hannah hugs Einas Shalabi after the Flint Islamic Center's interfaith prayer service on Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Flint, Mich., for Lt. Jeff Neville, who was stabbed at Bishop Airport Wednesday morning. "I felt so obliged, morally, that I have to come, support and be a part of this. This is my first time attending an interfaith ceremony and I feel like there is a lot of positive energy here. Each and everyone prayed with their own language and own prayer but they were all asking for the same thing," said Shalabi, of Grand Blanc, Mich. (Shannon Millard /The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) Rachael Hannah hugs Einas Shalabi after the Flint Islamic Center's interfaith prayer service on Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Flint, Mich., for Lt. Jeff Neville, who was stabbed at Bishop Airport Wednesday morning. "I felt so obliged, morally, that I have to come, support and be a part of this. This is my first time attending an interfaith ceremony and I feel like there is a lot of positive energy here. Each and everyone prayed with their own language and own prayer but they were all asking for the same thing," said Shalabi, of Grand Blanc, Mich. (Shannon Millard /The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

By Associated Press June 23, 2017 2 min read

FLINT, Mich. (AP) – The Latest on the investigation into a stabbing of a police officer at the airport in Flint, Michigan (all times local):

___

10:45 a.m.

Doctors say the Flint, Michigan, airport officer stabbed in the neck during what federal authorities are investigating as a terrorist act is recovering well from the life-threatening attack.

Hurley Medical Center doctors said Friday that Bishop International Airport police Lt. Jeff Neville could be released from the hospital within a couple days. Dr. Donald Scholten says Neville suffered a 12-inch slash that caused significant bleeding but spared major arteries and a nerve by “millimeters.”