AMARILLO, Texas — Hayden McAdams was off duty when bullets cut through a crowd on Amarillo’s Polk Street. Instead of running from danger, the former Potter County corrections officer rushed toward it — actions that later earned him one of Texas’ highest law enforcement honors.
On Jan. 26, McAdams and coworkers were leaving a downtown club after a birthday celebration when a man armed with an AR-15 opened fire, Amarillo-Globe News reports. Nine people were wounded in the attack.
McAdams took cover, then saw the gunman flee. With victims bleeding around him, he jumped into action. One of them was his coworker, Corrections Officer Hahn. A belt being used as a tourniquet wasn’t enough…