Deputy trained as Medic saves shooting victim
FOX. 50 AND AT 11 O'CLOCK BACK
ON WRAL
>> COUNTY WOMAN IS ALIVE
TONIGHT BECAUSE THE DEPUTY WHO
RESPONDED TO A SHOOTING HAD AN
EXTRA LEVEL OF TRAINING.
HOKE COUNTY HAS THE ONLY
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN THE
STATE WHERE DEPUTIES ARE
TRAINED AS PARAMEDICS LAST
MONTH. THE WRAL INTRODUCE YOU
TO 2 OF THE FIRST DEPUTIES TO
COMPLETE THAT PROGRAM TODAY.
WRAL'S GILBERT BAYS SPOKE WITH
ONE OF THEM AGAIN. NOW THAT HE
IS SAVED A LIFE.
>> THE CALL CAME IN AS A
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT.
A FATHER HAD ALLEGEDLY SHOT HIS
SON. BUT WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED,
THEY FOUND ANOTHER SHOOTING
VICTIM.
>> THINGS ARE QUIET HERE ON
JOHN BROWN ROAD IN HOKE COUNTY.
BUT A BULLET HOLE THROUGH THE
HOME'S FRONT WINDOW IS REMINDER
OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE MONDAY
NIGHT HERE. SO WE'RE DEALING
WITH DOMESTIC SITUATION.
IS.
>> INVOLVING BEING PHYSICAL
AND A RESULT OF THE PHYSICAL OR
WEAPONS BAN INVOLVED IS ALWAYS
INJURIES. THAT WAS THE CASE
WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED ON SCENE,
7 YEAR-OLD JEROME JOHNSON IS
ACCUSED OF SHOOTING HIS SON.
HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE
HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED.
WHILE INVESTIGATING THE SCENE
OF THE CRIME AND DEPUTY LEAD
BLACK WHO IS A DEPUTY TRAINED
AS A MEDIC, EXAMINE THE
VICTIM'S STEPMOTHER WHO WAS
ALSO SHOT. HE ACTUALLY HAD A
THROUGH AND THROUGH.
>> BULLET WOUND IN THE LOWER
PALM OF HER HAND, DEPUTY BLACK
WAS ABLE TO HELP STOP THE
BLEEDING AND CALM THE VICTIM
DOWN UNTIL SHE COULD BE
TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.
WE'RE TOLD THERE WERE NO OTHER
MEDICAL UNITS AVAILABLE TO
ASSIST THE OFFICER AT THAT
LOCATION.
>> THE OFFICERS TRAINING AS
A MEDIC WAS CRUCIAL AT THE
SCENE. HE'S ALREADY HAD TO
PERFORM AS THE DEPUTY MEDICAL
IN SEVERAL OCCASIONS THAT IN A
SIMILAR SITUATION, IF WE
ARRIVED ON SCENE AND I GET
THEIR FIRST AND WE'VE GOT TO
SOMEONE WITH A SUBSTANTIAL
INJURY, CAN PROGRESS INTO THE
ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT CARE.
SO THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME
THAT DEPUTY BLACK HAD TO USE
HIS MEDICAL TRAINING. HE'S TOLD
ME HE'S DONE IT AT LEAST 6
TIMES SINCE HE JOINED THE FORCE
IN HOKE COUNTY, GILBERT BAYS,
WRAL, NEWS.
QUITE IMPRESSIVE.
>> DURHAM JOHNSON WILL BE IN
COURT TOMORROW. RIGHT NOW HE'S
BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND IN THE