BOWIE, Md. — Two Good Samaritans — Carlos Winston and high school student Zachary Canter — received the Bowie Police Department’s Chief’s Award on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, for rescuing a woman and her four children from a vehicle trapped beneath a fallen tree during a severe thunderstorm last July.
Police said the family has fully recovered.
Winston said he was riding as a passenger when he saw a tree down across the roadway and “red lights in the tree.” Hearing cries for help, he pushed through the brush to the car and lowered a rear window to reach the children — a baby and girls about 2, 4 and 6 years old…