Visitor to Chicago comes to the aid of man shot in drive-by at train station
CHICAGO - Troy Laird used a water bottle from a friend to wash his bloody hands outside the Morse "L" station in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.
The glass door of the station was shattered from a drive-by shooting that killed a man Tuesday night. Inside was Laird's T-shirt he had used to try to save the man's life.
"I was compressing one of his bullet wounds while a cop was giving chest compressions," Laird said. "I've never been around gunshots that close in the city."
Told the victim, Joel Jenkins, later died at a hospital, he said, "I suspected as
