Intern for Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Daniel Hernandez, is being credited with saving the politician’s life. Daniel rushed to Gabrielle’s side in the midst of Jared L. Loughner’s deadly Tuscon, Arizona shooting spree Saturday, which left six people dead and twenty more injured.
Trained as a certified nursing assistant, Daniel used basic life-saving techniques like lifting Gabrielle’s head to make it easier for her to breathe, and using his bare hands to apply pressure to the wounds in her head to stop the bleeding.
“I don’t know if the gunshots were still going on when I was running toward the congresswoman,” Daniel said [via MTV], when asked if he was ever concerned for his own safety during the incident. “After I got there and I saw that the congresswoman had been injured, I saw that she was injured pretty badly and I wanted to make her my first and only priority.”
Employees from a nearby supermarket helped by bringing our clean smocks from the meat department to cover Gabrielle’s wounds until the paramedics arrived.
“There was never any doubt in my mind that she would pull through,” Daniel insisted. “And she will pull through, because she’s definitely a fighter… It just makes me happy to know that I could help her in any way I could.”
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