Woman alleges security guard stabbed her outside Chicago Heights club, leaving her with 20 stitches

I could have died. I could have died. Six words from a 21-year-old woman who never imagined a night out with friends would end with her fighting to get away from someone she says was supposed to keep people safe. We're calling her Lisa, not her real name, because she's afraid. The woman she accuses of stabbing her has not been taken into custody. 20 stitches. I have 20 stitches and invisible stitches. 20 stitches, a deep wound, and questions about how a night out in Chicago Heights turned into a violent encounter that lisa says she did nothing to provoke it was just after one Wednesday morning at Jimmy's Gentlemen's Club lisa says an argument broke out inside the establishment an argument she insists had absolutely nothing to do with her but as some of her friends ended up outside face to face with security lisa says she suddenly became a target it's like holding her back like from trying to get to me like she's trying to get to me and he's trying to hold her back and calm her down. And I'm just asking her, why do you want to fight me? I don't want to fight you. I'm literally saying this out of my mouth. I don't want to fight you. Why do you want to fight me? You're at work. Lisa says she didn't know the woman, had never met her, and couldn't understand why someone working security would want to fight her. Lisa says she tried to get away. I'm able to get up. So now I'm getting up. I'm still trying to get away from the crowd and they're pulling my top off of me like the security there's yes there she's she's not letting me go and then she says the unthinkable alleging that same female security guard stabbed her you're just outside she wants to fight you for some reason yes ends up stabbing you is that accurate yes a night that began with friends ended in an ambulance lisa was first taken to a hospital in Olympia Fields but she says her injuries were so serious she had to be transferred to Stroger Hospital a level one trauma center close to my lungs my lungs could have collapsed that's what the doctor told me like if it was any lower my lungs could have collapsed a matter of inches the difference lisa believes between surviving and never making it home and now she wants answers fox 32 went to Jimmy's Gentlemen's Club at 410 West Lincoln Highway we counted more than a half a dozen surveillance cameras outside the establishment cameras that could help investigators pieced together exactly what happened in this parking lot we also reviewed property records identifying James Leonardo as the building owner we contacted him by email asking whether those cameras were working whether video had been provided to police and whether anyone from the club would speak with us so far no response have you heard from police no when fox 32 requested information on the investigation corporate counsel for the city of Chicago Heights denied our request saying reports or further information on the incident that request may be denied at this time as this is still a very recent and active investigation for lisa the physical wounds may heal but she says the memory of trying to escape someone she believes was there to protect people won't be so easy to forget she needs to go to jail she had no reason to attack me she had no reason to stab me she had no reason to harm me like that i did nothing to her Tia Ewing, Fox Chicago.