Barnes and Reidford Selected EPD Officers of the Month

 The Evansville Police Department would like to announce the Officers of the Month for June 2020. They are Officers Barnes and Reidford. 

   On June 13, 2020 officers were dispatched to the intersection of HWY 41/Covert Ave in reference to an automobile accident involving two gunshot victims. The male and his female passenger took gunfire inside their vehicle in the area of Riverside and Linwood. Bleeding and wounded, the male attempted to drive to the emergency room at St. Vincent. He lost a large amount of blood and passed out behind the wheel and crashed into a small landscaping retaining wall and flipped his vehicle upside down. 

  Officers Barnes and Reidford arrived on the scene and found the male lying face up in the roadway in a large puddle of blood.  He had multiple gunshot wounds to his left leg. Lying next to him was the passenger with a gunshot wound to her left leg. They assisted the Evansville Fire Department by applying two tourniquets to the driver’s legs and waited for an ambulance to arrive.  

The driver lost a lot of blood before going into surgery. It is undisputed that both officers were instrumental in saving this man’s life by applying tourniquets and stopping the bleeding before he bled out.  

  Both officers did an outstanding job of keeping it together under pressure and applying a lifesaving technique with a piece of department-issued equipment. 

Congratulations on a job well done!