Recent retiree Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts was charging his EV in a Downey library parking lot when he was attacked in a stabbing that severed both carotid arteries and both jugular veins. He was alive when an ambulance arrived at the parking lot " but that emergency vehicle was then stolen. The driver of the ambulance, according to police, led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash miles away. "In that moment, every second mattered," Lefonts' family says in a legal claim against the city. "The City's paramedics and rescue vehicle were Reinaldo's only realistic chance of survival.