[dispatch]
[man on radio]
[sirens wailing]
Come on, come on, come on, let's go.
It's a male shot
at Broad and Cleveland Street.
[siren wailing]
Once we exposed the wound,
it started bleeding like crazy.
He had a very serious injury that could be a mortal wound
if the bleeding wasn't stopped.
We need to-- We need to go.
We gotta get him up.
Hey. We gotta get up.
-You gotta stand up. -Stand up on your good leg.
-You ready? One, two, three. -There we go.
Look, right over there. Sit in that crease.
Sit down. Legs up.
Yeah, you got a lot goin' on.
You're gonna feel a big stick in your arm, okay? Don't move.
And this was 110 over 70.
You have any medical conditions?
She's gonna get an IV. I'm gonna give you a little oxygen.
Take nice, deep breaths for me, man. You're doin' good.
3220, show us en route.
-Dan, you need anything? -I'm good. Thank you.
[Dan]
as little time as possible on the scene
and more time in the truck going to the hospital
and doing our treatments en route.
Hey, it's Dan with New Orleans unit 3220.
En route to you with a 25-year-old male.
Chief complaint of a single gunshot wound
to his left side of his groin.
I don't see an exit wound at this time.
That's his only wound.
As a man, that injury, he come close.
He come close to it being a lot worse than it was.
Approximately 200 to 250 cc blood loss on the scene.
Right now, it seems to be controlled.
Look, we're taking you to University Hospital,
that's the trauma center.
Gonna be a lot of doctors
asking you a whole bunch of questions really fast
and you're gonna feel a finger up your butt.
I know. But they gotta check for bleeding inside.
-[indistinct] at the hospital. -Good?
-Thank you, Paige. -Thank you, Paige.
Man, this guy just got, uh, shot over a pack of smokes.
You know, it's just not right. Um...
It's reminding me to be grateful.
Every day, you tell yourself, "You just gotta be grateful"
because you never know when your time is coming.
How many dudes walked up to me and asked for a cigarette?
But I would never think that somebody
would try to shoot me, like set me up, you know?
-Yeah. -My thing was, he was kinda...
I guess chipper is not the word I'm looking for
but he was upbeat
for a man walking around with a hole next to his junk.
Hey, they tried to take his manhood with that one.
[dispatch]
Police arrived on scene.
It's gotta be somewhere right in this area.
I see 'em.
[Holly]
and they're already setting up tape.
[Nick] 3232 on scene.
[indistinct dispatch chatter]
[Holly] Is he awake?
[man 1]
[Holly] Are y'all sure?
As soon as I get next to the guy,
his lips and face are just blue.
He looked dead.
[man 1]
[Holly]
And immediately, you think collapsed lung
or chest full of blood.
Lori, when we get him in the truck, pop him in the chest.
[Holly]
-Let's go, Nick. -...like, "We need to move."
[tense music playing]
If this guy has a chest cavity full of blood,
and it is not corrected and corrected soon,
it will kill him.
[Lori] I don't know if there's anyplace else.
-Oh, Lord. -[Nick] Squirtin'.
[man 2]
[Lori] No talking. Breathe.
We get a call for a male shot.
[Holly]
[Nick] Probably 'cause his cavity's filling up with blood.
[Lori]
[Nick] Won't be for long.
His cavity is actually filled with blood
to the point where it's causing a collapse of a lung
which can be life-threatening.
[Nick] I will.
So might have to put a needle through the ribs
into the cavity to relieve pressure.
[suspenseful music playing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[man 2 groaning]
[Nick]
which was good. I mean, that's what we do it for.
Unfortunately, you know it's not gonna last very long.
We bought him, like, five minutes, now we gotta go.
[Holly] All right. Let's go.
-[indistinct] -Yep.
-[man 3] All right. -Hey, you still with me?
Hey, you still with me?
[music slowly intensifies]
[man 2]
Thanks, dude. We got you, baby. We're goin' to the hospital now.
This guy looked so terrible.
I can tell just by looking at him
he is not getting oxygen.
Definitely got a hemo!
You gonna be all right, baby. We're gonna take care of you.
He's losing this battle.
So I need to push him to fight.
Do you know who did this to you?
[man 2]
Did they try to rob you?
Talking to him constantly, like,
"Hey, talk to me. Don't go to sleep."
Hey, baby, what's your name?
Hey. What's your name?
Talk to me. I need to know that you're still awake.
-[man 2 mumbles] -Okay.
You're gonna be all right.
I just need you not to give up, okay?
When you have a patient like this
that you know what's wrong, you know what they need,
you just don't have the tools and capacity to do it,
and you're only a few minutes away from the people who can,
you want them to understand that and want them to fight
because they definitely have a chance at surviving
and you know it.
You still with me, sweetie?
All right. Good.
We're pulling up to the hospital now, okay?
[tense music playing]
You know, as hard as that must have been,
he stayed awake the whole time.
[music fades]
I'ma tell you what.
That is will to hold on.
That dude had 650 ccs of blood in his chest cavity,
was cyanotic,
heart rate through the roof,
blood pressure of 50 over nada...
and you made it
that ten extra minutes
to get to the trauma center.
-Right. -That's will to live there.
[music ends]
[dispatch]
-[siren wailing] -[dramatic music playing]
EMS 3220, is the air clear?
[dispatch]
[indistinct]
[siren wailing]
[Dan] Got the bag?
[popping]
Going hard out there with them fireworks.
[Titus] All right, cut that out.
All right, Dan, we got evisceration.
[Dan] Lean forward, man.
-[Titus] Has an exit wound, Dan? -[Dan] Yeah.
[Dan]
shot in the stomach a couple times.
He was already in a wheelchair.
Like, who shoots somebody that's already in a wheelchair?
[Titus] We're gonna take care of you, man, don't sweat it.
[Titus] I gotta cut your pants.
[Dan] He's got one to the left forearm, one to the left chest,
and one to the posterior left.
[Dan]
Bullets go in and bounce around, hit a lot of things,
so we just want to get him to the hospital
and get some X-rays done and see what's going on.
All right, Mark!
We're gonna hold you down, my man.
You saw the guy that shot you?
You was in your house or you was outside?
You was in your house? They come inside?
How long ago you were shot that caused your paralysis?
You was a young man then, huh?
He got shot as a young man, and here he is, 30 years later,
right back in the same situation.
He'll probably survive this one too,
but it's not an experience
most people want to have more than once.
[Titus] 3220 at the hospital.
[intense music playing]
Now.
We're gonna get you fixed up, don't hold you down, man.
[Titus] Man, that's not the way to celebrate Fourth of July.
How you gonna run in somebody's house
and shoot a paraplegic in a wheelchair?
In a wheelchair!
They're debating a chest tube right now.
-Really? -Yeah.
But you know what, you got your little...
your little, uh, bulletproof vest on?
-Yeah. -I feel safe, man.
If I... if I don't go home, we're in trouble.
Actually, you would be in trouble.
Heather would never-- You'd never hear the end of that.
She would do a good job at making you feel like [bleep].
All right, let's get back out there.
-It's hot tonight, dude. -Yeah, it is.
[woman over radio]
[man over radio]
[woman over radio]
[man over radio]
[victim over radio]
[man over radio]
[woman over radio]
[dispatch]
[Holly] We're riding DT.
We're going to the 3300 block for a male that was shot there.
[dispatch]
[Holly] EMS, we copy that.
I mean, how you say you just... you woke up shot?
[Nick]
-What's up, man? -[man]
Okay, baby, can we get you in the truck so we can...
We'll take care of everything. Let me look at you quick.
I'm gonna have to cut this off of you, okay?
Initially, he appears to be fine.
It doesn't even look like he's shot.
-He's got one in the chest. -One in the chest, right here.
All right, baby, let's go this way.
I lift up his shirt, and I can see
that he has a bullet wound to the chest.
Sit right here for me, okay?
You're not gonna die. We're gonna take care of you.
[Holly]
in the back of the truck so we can see
if he has anything more.
-It's right here, but... -Where?
That's where it starts. It's swollen right there.
Did you fall?
Okay, and you just woke up with this, huh?
Yeah, I heard it, I don't know how they got in my house.
[Holly]
Nick feels the back of his head,
and he can feel a little skull deformity.
-All right, baby, sit back. -Wait a minute.
It looks like he's crying tears, literally.
I can't figure out what until I look at it really close.
[Holly] Oh my God!
-It's right there. -That's it.
-Yeah, baby. -[Nick]
in his eye socket from a bullet.
You got right here
and you got one right here in the crease of your eye.
It looks like it went into your nasal cavity,
and it may have actually ended up back here.
Can you see out of this eye?
Okay. Were you able to see out of this eye before?
[Holly]
in the eye that he was shot,
he had no idea that he was actually hit in the face.
Stick out your tongue.
-Got blood in his mouth. -Yeah.
[Holly]
he was definitely gonna be a trauma activation,
but when you have someone shot to the face,
he could have swelling of the brain,
bleeding on the brain, I mean, the possibilities are endless.
So, we are gonna get him to the hospital
as quickly as possible.
Just relax your arms, okay?
Okay, he's in the front seat.
Just count your blessings, try to relax.
Don't touch back there behind.
A little pinch. I know this is a stretch mark,
so it might hurt a little bit.
Oh, Nick, I need one of those lines over here.
[exhales]
[Nick] Look at it this way, they didn't get your son,
and you're gonna live.
So you look at it like that, you're really lucky.
Gonna grab you a scope quick and check out the little one.
-Thank you. -Come here. Lift up your shirt.
I just wanna make sure you're okay.
You don't have any pain anywhere?
-All right, hop in. -[Nick]
a lot of lucky people, but this guy
probably ranks in the top five.
Chest, okay. Face, come on.
You don't normally get shot in the face
and live to tell about it.
I have your son, baby, he's in the front seat.
-Say hey to your dad. -Hi.
-[Nick] He's in the front. -[Holly] 3232, code 3.
[siren wailing]
[Nick]
Dude! Did it go straight through or did it go...?
Entrance, and I couldn't tell... obviously you can't tell
from an X-ray, you're gonna need a CAT.
-Right. -But you could see the bullet...
-In the back? -Yeah, so...
[Holly] And then you got the one in the chest.
Luckily it didn't hit his heart.
-You know, so... -Or a lung.
The luckiest dude, period.
-Dude! -Once he comes out,
we're going to the boat, we're going gambling, 'cause--
-That's what y'all doin'? -Yeah!
-Y'all decided that? -Hey, I'm gonna find him,
and I'm gonna put some, uh, put all some money
on whatever he says, red or black, whatever he wants.
[Holly] You one lucky, lucky dude.
[gentle music playing]