A postal worker in Chicago is drawing national attention for helping save a man.
Jaylen Lockhart was working his normal postal route in one Chicago-area neighborhood on Nov. 16 when he saw an elderly man walking his dog on the sidewalk fall down on the pavement.
“He seemed to be walking off-balance … he fell and hit his head…he faceplanted on the ground,” 26-year-old Lockhart told The Washington Post .
Lockhart immediately got out of his truck, checked on the man, called 911, and waved down some drivers for help.
“I dropped his treat bag on the ground, and I bent over to pick it up,” 75-year-old Guy Miller said. “About the same time I bent over, he lunged at a squirrel. I lost my balance and hit the ground.”
Lockhart said that Miller was bleeding from a wound on his head, and he used napkins and someone’s spare T-shirt to plug the injury.
“I’m trying to get up at the same time and, and … he tell me just to stay down, just stay down, you might be hurt, and it can’t be walking anywhere,” Miller said.