Marine vet recounts saving New York officer who was stabbed

HE IS NOW IN STABLE CONDITION BUT DOCTORS SAY THE QUICK ACTIONS OF A FORMER MARINE WHO JUMPED IN TO HELP SAVED HIS LIFE. AND THAT FORMER MARINE JOINS US NOW. >> GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING TO YOU. YOU ARE HOME SATURDAY NIGHT MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS YOU HEAR A CRASH AND LOUD NOISE AND YOU GO OUT AND SEE ONE CAR ON IT SIDE AND SOMETHING ELSE IN YOUR FRONT YARD. WHAT HAPPENED? >> YES, I SEE A CAR TURNED ON ITS SIDE AND I SEE ANOTHER SUV TURNED ON ITS SIDE AND I SEE A NISSAN THAT CRASHED INTO MY FRONT YARD ON TO A TREE. AT THAT POINT I SEE THE GENTLEMAN IN THE NISSAN AND HE SEAMS TO BE FINE. HE GAVE HAND SIGN HE WAS OKAY. I SAW AN OFFICER TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE SUSPECT WHO WAS THE DRIVER OF THAT SUV. SUSPECT ACTED AS IF HE WAS GOING TO GIVE, IN HOWEVER, HE SAID HE USED CURSE WORD AND RAN. AND BASICALLY RAN TO MY BACKYARD. AT THAT POINT I CLOSED THE DOOR. I TOLD THE GENTLEMAN IN THE NISSAN TO PLEASE HOLD ON I WILL GET BACK TO HIM. I WENT UPSTAIRS, GRABBED A HEAD LAMP I HAVE A FLASHLIGHT. BY THE TIME I GET TO THE BACK DOWNSTAIRS AND TO THE BACKYARD, THAT OFFICER WAS UNFORTUNATELY ALREADY DOWN. THERE WAS A COMMOTION GOING ON IN THE CORNER OF THE BACKYARD, WHICH WAS THE SUSPECT, IN WHICH I LATER FOUND OUT WAS AN EXNYPD RETIRED OFFICER WHO HAD ALSO STOPPED TO HELP, HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH THE SUSPECT. WHICH ALLOWED ME TO TEND TO THE OFFICER. AT THAT POINT I REALIZED THAT THE OFFICER HAD A DEEP CASH WOUND LEG BLOAT GROIN AND BASICALLY NEEDED A TOURNIQUET. SO I SAID HOLD ON, BROTHER, I WILL GO UPSTAIRS AND GRAB A BELT. WENT UPSTAIRS AND GRABBED THE BELT. AS I WENT UPSTAIRS AND GRAND THE BELT I HAD MY PHONE ON ME AND CALLED 911 FOR BACKUP BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY OFFICER AT THE TIME ON THE SCENE. BY THE TIME I GET DOWN WITH THE TURN CUT AND START TRYING TO APPLY IT, OFFICER HELPED ME, PUT TWO MORE TURN CUTS ON HIM. SO ALL TOGETHER WAS THREE. AND I HEAR ONE OFFICER SAY WE HAVE GOT TO CARRY HIM TO GET HIM TO THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW. SO, I GRABBED THE OFFICER BY HIS BOOTS, I PUT BOTH HIS BOOTS ON MY SHOULDERS AND THE OTHER OFFICERS CARRIED THE REST OF HIS BODY, HIS TORSO AND WE CARRIED HIM ON TO AN SUFFICIENT AND SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE SUV AND THEY TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. STEVE: AND HE IS IN STABLE CONDITION THIS MORNING. IS HE EXPECT TO RECOVER. THE SURGEON WHO OPERATED ON HIM SAID THAT YOU SAVED HIS LIFE BECAUSE APPARENTLY THE KNIFE HIT THE GUY’S FEMORAL ARTERY. >> I FIGURED THAT WHEN I SAW IT. STEVE: YOU WERE RIGHT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. YOUR TRAINING JUST KICKED. IN AND DID YOU WHAT YOU HAD TO DO. SIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING AND TELLING US THIS AMAZING STORY. >> I’M JUST GLAD THE OFFICER IS ALIVE AND, YOU KNOW, GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS WIFE. THE EXNYPD OFFICER THAT HELPED. I THANKED HIM AND HELPED ME WITH THAT AS WELL. I THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE TIME TO TELL THE STORY. STEVE: IT’S A REAL PLEASURE BECAUSE YOU, SIR ARE A HERO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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Length: 3min 21sec (201 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021