UPDATE: Latest on Valet Driver Who Stopped GM Tech Center Stabbing

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WARREN, MI – The valet driver hailed as a hero for stopping an attack on and likely saving the life of a female worker at the General Motors Tech Center Wednesday morning hasn’t been fired, despite media accounts, a GM official told the Detroit Free Press.

Michael Albano, a spokesman for the automaker, told the newspaper that neither GM nor its contracted valet service has fired anyone.

Earlier on Patch

A woman who works at the General Motors Tech Center in Warren was stabbed multiple times Wednesday, and a valet driver who intervened has been fired, according to media reports.

The valet driver stopped the attack, which left the victim in critical condition after surgery, by pulling out his legally carried pistol. It’s unclear if the driver was fired for displaying his weapon, WJBK-TV said.

The incident, which authorities think is a domestic dispute, unfolded about 9:30 a.m. The victim was stabbed in the neck, abdomen and back with a steak knife.

Employees of GM were told in an email:

“An incident occurred between a GM employee and a visitor this morning at the Vehicle Engineering Center (VEC) on the Warren Technical Center campus. The situation is under control and a full investigation is being conducted by the Warren Police Department with full cooperation from GM. The employee has been taken to a local hospital and the suspect is in custody.”

Warren Mayor Jim Fouts told The Detroit News that a valet driver with a concealed pistol license “stopped the assault” by pulling out his gun.

“It certainly isn’t terrorism, it isn’t workplace violence,” Fouts told The Detroit news. “There are rumors that they might have been relatives, but we don’t know for sure what their relationship is.”

Fouts told both the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News that violence at the Tech Center, where the bulk of GM’s engineering, advanced technology and safety research takes place, is “unprecedented, unexpected and unbelievable.”

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