FORWARD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two officers credited with saving the life of a woman injured last month in a triple shooting outside a Forward Township bar were honored Monday night for their heroic actions and reunited with the shooting victim they helped save.
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Elizabeth Township Officer Jason Shallenberger and Elizabeth Borough Officer Garrett Kimmell were among first responders called Aug. 6 to Saloon 136, where a man and two women were shot in the parking lot. The man, 27-year-old Johnathan Minnie, died from his injuries.
“I got shot twice. Right above my ankle and right above my knee. It broke my femur,” Alyssa Madison said.
Madison and her friend Amanda were the two woman who were shot.
“I almost lost my life that night, but with them there, I’m here today,” Madison said about Shallenberger and Kimmell.
The entire incident was captured on Kimmell’s body camera. In the video, the officers are seen applying a tourniquet to Madison’s leg. It was a life-saving device the pair had been trained to use just one month prior to the shooting.
“He had had pressure on the wound really good. It slowed the bleeding down, but we needed to get it stopped. So we put the tactical tourniquet on it to essentially stop the bleeding in her leg,” Kimmell said.
Knowing how different the night could have gone, Madison couldn’t let the officers who saved her life not know how thankful she is.
Shallenberger and Kimmell were each presented Monday night with certificates and framed photos of Madison’s two children, which read, “Thank you. You helped save our mommy and our future.”
“The honor’s nice, but important to me was to meet her and to meet her family. That’s more powerful than the actual ceremony itself,” Kimmell said.
“We’re definitely going to stay in touch after this incident, which I’m glad that I made a new friend out of this as well,” Shallenberger said.
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