While one man was shot and losing blood rapidly on the streets of Carson, another was prepared for the occasion and administered aid that first responders called life saving.
Around 12:20 a.m. on Sunday, former Army medic Johnny Carabajal was driving home from a fishing gear shop on Wilmington Avenue near Carson Street when he saw a man and woman on the ground in the middle of the road.
Carabajal pulled his vehicle over and the woman screamed out to him, telling him that the man on the ground was shot. After observing a gunshot wound to the leg, Carabajal went back to his vehicle and took out a tourniquet that he happened to have with him.
“I had a tourniquet in my car, it’s actually a tourniquet I’ve been working on for the past couple of years,” Carabajal said. “I grabbed it, I ran up and saw the hole in his leg and it was bleeding bright red blood so I knew it needed a tourniquet.”
After applying the tourniquet, the victim asked Carabajal, “did you just save my life?”
First responders arrived shortly after and transported the victim to a local hospital, where he was treated for his injuries
No additional details were given in regards to the shooting.