Several lives changed on Dec. 28, 2023.
Deputy Ryan Moore, like many other law enforcement officers in the City of Norfolk, was working a normal shift when gunshots rang out downtown.
It was around 10:40 p.m. when an HRT Light Rail driver flagged down police in the 100 block of Bank St., reporting that a teenager had been shot while on the train.
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Working just around the corner, Deputy Moore was of the first to arrive on scene and help. He tells me that he applied a tourniquet on the teenager’s leg to control the bleeding.
“We just do as we’re trained and thankfully, I didn’t think about it too much, I just did what had to be done,” he says.
Deputy Moore saved the teen that day, though his actions didn’t surprise Sheriff Joe Baron.
“When I first heard that we had a Deputy that saved somebody’s life I said, ‘well, who was it? […] I need to know more about that,” he says. “When I found out was Moore, I was like, ‘oh, okay, well, yeah, that sounds like something he would do.’”