Source: Wagoner County Sheriff’s Department
Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliott presented Deputy Dillon Street with a Life Saver Award during the Wagoner County weekly commissioners’ meeting. The information below states why he received the award.
On Dec. 16 at approximately 3:27 p.m. Street was dispatched to 8300 Block of South 300 E. Ave. for an accidental shooting. The victim accidentally discharged his firearm into his leg.
Upon arrival Street observed the male lying on the ground next to a Jeep Cherokee in the driveway. The male was holding pressure on the side of his right thigh. Street noticed a T-shirt shirt was used as a makeshift tourniquet on what appeared to be the exit wound.
Street applied a tourniquet on the victim’s upper thigh above his wound and used his medical shears to cut off the victims pant leg to expose the wound. Street then used gauze and wrapped the entry and exit wound.
While Street treated his injuries, the victim was coherent and alert. The victim advised he was installing a magnetic weapon holster on the kick panel of his Jeep. The victim advised he wanted to “dry fire” his pistol before stowing it in his holster.
While sitting in the driver’s seat, he pulled the trigger, discharging a round into his thigh as the 9mm was not unloaded.
No one else was injured during this incident. EMS arrived for further treatment and the victim was transported to St. Francis Main.
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