A neighbor who rushed to help Ralph Yarl after he was shot when he mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell said he initially thought the teen was dead — before his Eagle Scout training kicked in to stop the boy’s bleeding.
James Lynch, 42, told NBC News he had just gotten out of the shower Thursday night when he heard gunfire, so he went to his kitchen window and noticed a boy banging on someone’s door.
“I heard somebody screaming, ‘Help! Help! I’ve been shot!’” the father of three told the outlet.
He sprinted outside, jumped over his fence and ran to Yarl, whose face and arms were covered in blood – and saw what appeared to be a head wound near the 16-year-old’s eye socket.
“I thought he was dead,” Lynch told NBC News on Monday, adding: “No one deserves to lay there like that. He hasn’t even begun to live his life yet. He didn’t deserve to get shot.”
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