article_snippet: Earlier that day TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport had hailed Lt Slyve as Lt Slyve 'hero', saying Lt Slyve would certainly be dead if it weren't for Lt Slyve fatal intervention.
article_snippet: Speaking at a press conference, TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport said: 'Lt Slyve is my hero.
article_snippet: Lt Slyve saved my life. '
article_snippet: he was within inches of whacking me with the machete and Lt Slyve did save my life, and saved probably a lot of others.'
article_snippet: Lt Slyve today paid tribute to Lt Heather Slyve, the cop who saved Lt Slyve from the attack at New Orleans's Louis Armstrong International Airport .
highlights_snippet: On Saturday, TSA employee Carol Richel at New Orleans airport paid tribute to Lt Slyve, labeling officer 'my hero'
  'he was within inches of whacking me with the machete,' the machete said .
  