gabrielle giffords
Daniel Hernandez was Congressman Gabrielle Giffords' intern for five days when he was gunned down Saturday in Tucson.The University of Arizona junior helped the people to check the "Congress of the corner" if, when he heard shots. He was about 30 meters from the representative. When the shooting started, he walked toward them.
"I do not even know if the shooting ceased, he said on Saturday held a vigil at University Medical Center cafeteria, around the television watching a tribute, and the latest updates.When the shooting started that morning, he saw many people lying on the ground, including a young girl. Were bleeding. Hernandez said that he transferred from one person to another, to control impulses.
"First, the neck and wrist," he said. One man died. Then I saw the Giffords. He fell, and the narrow sidewalk. He was bleeding.Using your hands, Hernandez pressure on the entry wound on his forehead. He pulled her into his lap, even against her, so she does not choke on his own blood. Giffords was conscious, but quietly.Ron Barber, Giffords district, was next. Hernandez said in an outsider to put pressure on one of Barber's wounds.Hernandez barber said, "Make sure you keep Gabby. Be sure to help Gabby."
Hernandez at the hands to exert pressure until someone from the inside Safeway smocks made clean the meat department. He used them to apply pressure on the entrance wound was not aware of a wound. Do not let him.He stayed with him until the paramedics arrived Giffords. They tied him to a board and loaded him in the ambulance. Hernandez climbed with him. The trip to the hospital, he took her hand. He squeezed back.
When he arrived at the hospital, Hernandez was swimming in blood. His family brought him clean clothes, because the FBI had the evidence.He waited in the hospital until he went into surgery. I had to tell police what had happened. He heard that a lot of people by talking about how Giffords had died. He also heard the NPR. She later learned he lived.
"I'm ecstatic," he said. "He was one of those, I have been looking at. Knowing it was still alive and still fighting in good news. He's definitely a fighter, and his own life, or people standing in the Southern Arizona."The fact that Hernandez was nearby and able to react quickly is likely to Giffords' lives could be saved, "said state Rep. Matt Heinz, D-Tucson, and a hospital doctor. He spoke to Hernandez in the hospital after the shooting.Eight hours after the shooting, Hernandez was Giffords' friends and colleagues and told them what had happened. The long, strong 20 year old said: "Of course you're afraid, you just kind of do what you can."They hugged and thanked him. Later, sitting on her mother and siblings, and friends and told them to crew, who died that day.
