Quick-Thinking Shoppers Help Save Man's Life
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A3 + PLUS >> Vaccinations begin at nursing homes, 3A PREP FOOTBALL NFL Brown, Moore ink Minshew Mania letters of intent returns in Jacksonville See Page 10A See Page 10A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Shop ’til they drop COURTESY Good Samaritans may have helped save a man’s life Tuesday when he had a medical emergency while driving and ran into the Publix building. Quick-thinking shoppers help save man’s life By TONY BRITT when a guy came up with a [email protected] knife that had a glass break- er and he was able to shat- Quick thinking and even ter the window. quicker reactions by sev- “… He started pulling the eral local Good Samaritans glass out barehanded — may have saved a man’s life just grabbed the glass and Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Tuesday afternoon. started pulling it out and Ryleigh Harden gets a ride on a shopping cart from Lake City Police Department Lt. Andy Miles while The man, who was driv- then got in there to unlock Christmas shopping during the Shop with a Cop program Wednesday morning at Walmart. Thirty local chil- ing a pickup truck through it,” Davis said. dren were able to go Christmas shopping with LCPD officers during the event. the Publix parking lot, expe- The driver was then rienced a medical emergen- pulled out of the vehicle and cy, which rendered him laid onto the sidewalk when Shop with a Cop helps grant Christmas wishes unable to drive and result- another Good Samaritan ed in his truck striking the began to help by perform- By TONY BRITT arrived they were chaper- Publix. ing CPR on the driver. [email protected] oned through the store and Jordan Davis was work- “A woman came over allowed to make Christmas ing as a vendor in the area with her daughter, she was Ten Lake City Police gift purchases that includ- and saw the pickup truck on a shopper and I think she Department vehicles ed toys, electronics, candy, the sidewalk touching the must have been a nurse lined the street outside games, dolls, Nerf guns building, but he didn’t know or something because she Walmart Wednesday and a variety of other items the extent of the driver’s really knew what she was morning as 15 Lake City that were paid for through condition. doing and she started doing Police Department officers a Walmart grant. “I didn’t hear anything or compressions for a while formed a semi-circle and Ashley Wickline, LCPD it didn’t seem like a major until emergency services discussed a plan of action. community relations coor- thing — I didn’t know what arrived,” Davis said. But rather than discuss- dinator, said the Lake City was going on,” he said, not- Davis said the man ing a plan to deal with Police Department has ing that other people began seemed to be unrespon- criminals, the officers were offered the program for running towards the truck sive the entire time and devising the method to eight years. and he followed suit. “I then an unidentified Publix helping local children find This year children, looked into the window and employee went inside the the Christmas gifts they between the ages of 6 to the guy was slumped over store, retrieved its AED and wanted. 16, were able to shop in and was blue.” returned. LCPD officers and the program. The chil- Davis was the only per- The woman set up the employees from Walmart dren were divided into two son on the passenger side AED and used it to and then and its distribution center groups of 15 children each of the vehicle and he and continued compressions, in Alachua assisted 30 local with the first group set others were trying to figure Davis said. children take part in the to shop at 8 a.m. and the how to get inside the vehi- “I know that I was praying annual Shop with a Cop second group shopping at cle to help the driver. and a lot of people around event, turning the chil- 10 a.m. The children were He said they were hitting me were praying,” Davis Lake City Police Officer Tyrone Sheppard casts an dren’s Christmas wishes given 45 minutes to shop the vehicle’s front windows intent look at prices as he helps a child look for into reality. trying to figure what to do LIFE continued on 2A Christmas gifts Wednesday. Once the children SHOP continued on 3A Lifting up their voices TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter North Florida Arts and Sciences Academy students sing Christmas carols in Olustee Park Tuesday evening. The students sang, danced and led the audience in Christmas songs for more than an hour, during their Tuesday evening performance. The students also performed for the Lake City Kiwanis Club weekly luncheon, for the eighth consecutive year, earlier in the day. 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