Adrenalin, parental instincts and lessons learned from his dad kicked into overdrive at the start of Matthew Phillips’s Father’s Day weekend when an attempted carjacker pulled a rifle on him and his 3-year-old daughter in Pierce County.
Hospitalized after the Friday morning ordeal in Parkland, Phillips described to The Dori Monson Show listeners how he continued to protect his daughter even after one of two suspects in the incident shot him in the mouth, leaving pieces of a bullet lodged in his tongue.
It started, he said, after loading his daughter into his vehicle on their way to daycare.
“I had just barely turned the corner when I was
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