Police Officer uses tourniquet to stop bleeding after 20-year-old shot on St. Paul’s Rice street

[TBO]

A police officer used a tourniquet to stop the bleeding when a 20-year-old was shot in the arm in St. Paul’s North End, police said Wednesday.

A 60-year-old man flagged down an officer on Tuesday at 1:55 p.m. at Rice Street and Winnipeg Avenue and pointed down the block saying, “That guy just got shot,” according to a police report.

The officer found the 20-year-old a block away, at Rice and Atwater streets, where a friend was walking him back from the corner, said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman.

Paramedics took the young man to Regions Hospital with a non-life threatening injury.

A crowd of about 20 people gathered at the scene, but they “didn’t want to help or give information,” Linders said. No one had been arrested as of Wednesday.

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[Huaco Kid]

Tha's what tampons are for.

[Huaco Kid]

I carry them in a leather pouch on my belt and go around all day saving shotted people in Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland.

Down in Alabama they just kind of shake it off, refuse help, and walk away.