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Cohn's Carjacking Survival Story
When it came time to tell his harrowing account of his near-fatal carjacking in Denver, Marc Cohn knew exactly what network to give the exclusive to: his wife's.
Cohn gave his first interview since being shot in the head earlier this month to ABC's 20/20, which happens to feature wife Elizabeth Vargas as a correspondent.
Accompanied by Vargas, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, sporting a small bandage over his eyebrow near his temple, shared his frightening experience Friday on the newsmagazine.
"I touched myself and it was blood all over my hands," Cohn recounted of his initial reaction to being hit in the head.
"I realized I was the one who'd been hit...every second that passed by, I thought, that's the last one. That's the last second I'll be here."
But Cohn miraculously survived. Doctors say the 46-year-old, best known for the hit "Walking in Memphis," was lucky to have the bullet slowed by the windshield of the van and his tour manager, who was grazed.
Both Cohn and tour manager Thomas Dube were treated and released. The alleged shooter, 26-year-old Joseph Yacteen, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder for shooting the men, one of 19 counts he racked up during an Aug. 8 crime spree. He remains in police custody.
"It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief," Cohn said of seeing his brain scans in the hospital. "I saw that there was exactly enough room in the soft tissue between?the outside of my face, and the beginning of my skull, there was just enough room to hold that bullet."
After reviewing the CT scans, Dr. Jason Haukoos told 20/20, "I suspect the bullet actually struck the skull, not with enough velocity to fracture it but enough to stop it and keep it in this location. Any more velocity could have fractured the skull and another centimeter or two would have been into the brain--had his head turned five degrees to the left, it could've easily gotten into his eye."
The still-shaken singer is back in his New York home recuperating. "When the shock wears off, which it primarily has, I think you start to have to deal with the fact that the very useful bubble that you walk around in all the time, is now gone," he said.
"There'll be times where I'll just be talking to somebody. And usually it's some passing thought, either about the event, or one of my kids, or Elizabeth, and I'll just start crying. You can't, there's no stopping it, there's no explaining it, I mean there is explaining it, but I just sort of let it happen."
Vargas, too, was shaken by her husband's brush with death.
"I think the thing I've learned about all of this is sensitivity to people who have experiences like this, going forward," she said.
"Long after the physical wounds are healed, I think my husband's going to really be struggling with the psychological effects of what happened.
"This is not something you just sort of go, oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on--you don't just move on."
Cohn has canceled the remaining dates of his summer tour with Suzanne Vega due to his injury. He has vowed to make up all the shows once he is given the all-clear from his doctors.
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