Eight students were wounded when shooters opened fire at a SEPTA bus stop last week, but police say they are all lucky to be alive thanks to a fellow officer.
"This officer's quick-thinking and application of a tourniquet may have saved the lives of many of the young people who were shot that day," Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel announced during a press conference Monday.His name is Christian Rodriguez, and doctors credit him for stopping the bleeding long enough to keep the teens alive as they were rushed to the hospital.
The officer became a beacon of hope yet again when chaos and tragedy struck his city, leaving seven teenage boys and a teen girl hit by gunfire while waiting to board a SEPTA bus.Around 30 shots were brazenly fired towards the group of students by three masked shooters caught on surveillance footage.Two of those suspects, identified as 18-year-old Anhile Buggs and Jamaal Tucker, have been taken into custody.
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