Sultan Green and a second woman, both with black and white hair at about the same height, were the closest to Moulton after the attack.

Green, a retired public school teacher from Richmond, Texas, was with some friends in Houston after a family visit. Moulton was not.

When Moulton finally reached Sultan Green, he was able to describe his attacker and his injuries. He said the attacker had an axe, an ax-wielding friend and possibly another man. Green thought the attacker had a knife.

Green and Moulton then got into a car and had to fight their way out of the attack.

A Houston police officer drove them to a nearby hospital. Later, Green testified, he and Moulton sat down with a couple of women, ages 20 and 20, who sat by their side.

The women told the officer their friend was holding back when the attacker struck and his head struck the ground, striking several people. One woman told the officer the attacker hit a woman in the face. The officer drove the two women from the scene. Their friend and the two victims remained hospitalized.

The police officer said he tried to take photographs and video of the attack as it happened, but his camera battery died. The officer, along with one other man, tried to help the man in the back seat of his police car, but they all lost the phone.

Green was on a cell phone to call 911 while Moulton suffered a broken nose and a concussion. Both were sent to St. John’s Medical Center.

Moulton has been hospitalized, and Green has been released.

The men are members of an “anti-political violence” group called No Justice No Peace in Houston. They don’t endorse Moulton’s political views, they say.

“This is going to be a long road ahead,” said Scott King, chairman of the group.

King said Moulton should receive some kind of apology.

He described Moulton as a peaceful activist who wants to advocate on behalf of victims.

“He’s not a violent person like that [attacker],” King said.

Prosecutors said the victims’ names will not be released until their families get their justice — but Moulton and Green will have to wait.

The victim who was in the car with the pair pleaded guilty to second-degree