A Pennsylvania teen who jumped into a icy pond to rescue two young children who’d fallen in was shot and killed on an Instagram livestream over the weekend. Anthony Alexander Jr was 16 last year when he heard screams coming from a pond in Collingdale Park on February 21 last year. “They really needed help. …
A homeless Washington, D.C., man — one of 26 evicted earlier this week from a site in Franklin Square — has now been hailed as a hero after he stopped another man from stabbing a police officer. John Burrows said he saw the attack on Thursday, and it made him angry. “I was really mad …
When Edward Cyr spots a car bursting into flames on November 1 in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, he jumps into action and saves the person inside the car. A town hall security camera captured the incident as it happened.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Fred Rowbotham’s plan was to leave job stress behind with a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate his 45th birthday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. But when the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire rained down, the police officer from Chula Vista, California, sprang into action as if he were …
A Poteau, Oklahoma, police officer who responded to a child abuse call in 2015 is being praised after he adopted a little boy who was being severely beaten and starved. KFSM reports that when Officer Jody Thompson responded to the call and saw the then-8-year-old boy for the first time, he knew almost immediately that the child …
An off-duty cop allegedly stopped a man trying to abduct a child on a Florida beach last week. According to WESH, Daytona Beach police officer Troy Belden was in a McDonald’s drive-thru line last Friday night when he saw Robert Sawyer, 54, trying to pull a kid from a car parked outside the New Smyrna Beach restaurant. Though Darrell M. …
Authorities said an 11-year-old boy took matters into his own hands when he stabbed and chased off a violent home intruder who was attacking his mother. The NYPD told ABC 7 News that the suspect, identified as Brian Febus, 22, knocked on the door of the Bronx family’s home Tuesday afternoon and requested to use the bathroom. …
Late last month, a police officer reportedly rescued a 3-year-old girl having a seizure on the morning of his wedding. On March 28, Indiana University officer John O’Rourke was in a Sanford, Florida, Donuts to Go getting breakfast when he noticed a crowd gathered around a little girl who was acting irregularly. Instructing a bystander to call …
http://www.wisn.com/article/bus-driver-finds-boy-5-without-shoes-on-cold-january-night/9136857 A Milwaukee bus driver is being hailed a hero after coming to the rescue of a 5-year-old boy who was crying and wandering alone and barefoot in the street after midnight, ABC7 News Chicago. Denise Wilson was driving her bus when she saw the little boy dressed only in short pajamas on January 28, …
