![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He could have died right there at the scene if we had waited for an ambulance.”ĭavis attended a course at the Emergency Services Training Center in Coatesville from the Naval Strategic Health Alliance for Readiness and Performance called Tactical Emergency Assault Care. “The only thing I could think to do was to get him right to the hospital. “It was a bad sign, with no exit wound and no blood, at a very bad place to get shot,” Davis said. “People were running from the danger and Officer McMillen drove straight into the danger zone,” Davis said.ĭavis realized that with an abdomen shot and no external bleeding that the victim was bleeding internally. “Sometimes sporting events dictate how our nights will go.”Īlso close by the courthouse steps was rookie officer Ryan McMillen who yelled, “Shots fired! Shots fired!” “By 2 a.m., I thought we’d breeze through the night,” Davis said, during a Wednesday interview at the police station. Davis was hoping for an uneventful shift on an Eagles playoff day when some bar patrons might be tempted to binge drink. He said police often sit in this “good central location” while waiting for the bars to clear out after 2 a.m. He was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.ĭavis was parked in his police vehicle at the corner of Market and High streets, just 20 yards away from the shooting scene. on January 26, suspect Vaughn Yanko, 22, was placed into custody. Less than two minutes after the shooting, at 2:18 a.m. “This is another example of an officer doing everything he was supposed to do.” ![]() “As police we are honored to be able to serve and this is a perfect example of that service at its finest. “It’s what we are out there to do,” Lee said. ![]()
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