EPD Officer’s quick response save life of juvenile shooting victim of February shooting

On February 28, 20018 just after 2 pm, Evansville Police Department received a dispatch that a shooting had just occurred in the 2300 block of Haven Dr. The caller advised dispatchers that the victim had been shot in a lower extremity and that the victim was being transported to the hospital in a personal vehicle. At that time Officer Anna Gray observed a maroon SUV in the area of North Main St/Columbia St. attempting to frantically flag her down. Officer Gray investigated and realized that this vehicle contained the shooting victim from the Haven Dr address. Officer Gray observed profuse bleeding and quickly went into rescue mode and began rendering aid on a juvenile victim. Officer Bill Shirley arrived and assisted Officer Gray with maneuvering the body of the larger victim to the point where Officer Gray could apply a combat tourniquet to the leg of the victim. Officer Nathan Jones also arrived on scene quickly and assisted. The officers came together and quickly fo rmulated a plan to place the victim in the back of Officer Jones’ patrol vehicle for the quickest possible transport to Deaconess Midtown Hospital, which was nearby. Had it not been for the diligence, quick thinking, and team work of these veteran officers the juvenile victim would not have survived his wounds.