A hatchet-wielding suspect nearly decapitated 32-year-old Jacob Couch at a Tuscon, Arizona, bus stop earlier this month while he was traveling with his wife back home to their native Alabama. 

The alleged assailant – 25-year-old Daniel Michael – was ordered held on a $1 million cash bond in Pima County on felony assault charges in the seemingly random crime. He awaits another court hearing at the end of the month. 

Couch, meanwhile, has been hospitalized on life support for the past two weeks since the April 5 attack, and officials have said he is not expected to survive his injuries. 

He and his wife, Kristen Couch, were in California mourning the loss of their stillborn son a year ago. The couple decided to travel cross-country back to their hometown of Arab, Alabama, when their lives were upended in Tucson. 

Michael. Michael was arrested at his home in Tucson’s East Side three days later.