Teens charged after alleged shopping centre stabbing

Chris Sanders was at the shops to pick up dinner for his family. The next minute he was surrounded by blood after allegedly being stabbed by teens.

Harrowing footage has captured the moment father Chris Sanders was allegedly attacked by two armed teenagers at Alexandra Hills Shopping centre while he was picking up dinner for his family.

The 49-year-old, in an interview with Seven News, detailed the horrifying ordeal that left him in a pool of his own blood with a knife wound “1.5 centimetres” from his heart.

The alleged attack happened on December 12. Source: 7 News

“I started walking back through the shopping centre and all I heard was ‘knife, knife, knife’,” Mr Sanders said of the incident, which happened about 6.10pm on December 12.

“I tried to get back up and I couldn’t, I just had blood everywhere.

“The blade stopped 1.5cms from my heart.”

The scene at Alexandra Hills. Source: 7 News

Source: 7 News

Mr Sanders and his wife spoke with Opposition Leader David Crisafulli at Parliament House on Tuesday after his attack.

“That quite frankly is chilling, a story of someone going to their local supermarket,” Mr Crisafulli said.

Chris Sanders said more needs to be done to deal with youth crime. Source: 7 News

The footage comes after Premier Steven Miles insisted that community safety would still remain a top priority in his refreshed cabinet.

“No one deserves this, no one,” Mr Sanders said

“Youth justice has to take a major turn.”

Following investigations by the Bayside Child Protection Investigation Unit, a 15-year-old boy was located at a Redland Bay address two days later.

He was charged with one count of unlawful wounding, acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm and affray.

A 17-year-old man surrendered himself to police that same day and has been charged with one count each of unlawful wounding and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm as well as two counts of affray.