Sort of an interesting story
Cummings stopped at a gas station in Catonsville, Maryland, on Mother’s Day 2008, just moments after a father-to-be was stabbed during a robbery while taking his expectant wife to the hospital to deliver their son.
“As I was driving up to get my gas, there were three or four well-dressed African-American ladies on cell phones and they were crying,” Cummings told the Washington Examiner a few days later. “I looked to my right and I saw a man with blood spewing out. I thought he had been shot.”
Cummings tried to comfort the man, 19-year-old Carlos Santay-Carrillo, before help arrived.
“It couldn’t have been more than 20 seconds before I got there,” Cummings said. “He was lying there by himself. He stood up, and the blood kept coming. He fell on his face. He turned over a little bit. I just started talking to him. I said, ‘It’s going to be all right. It’s going to be OK.'”
The lawmaker said Santay-Carrillo tried repeatedly to stand up and fought to stay alive, despite his grievous wound.
“The thing that got me, he kept trying to get up,” Cummings said. “He was trying very hard. He must have rose up at least four or five times. He fought. He didn’t have much strength, but he fought.
“His heart had been punctured,” Cummings added. “For him to live for 30 minutes, that means he had a real drive to stay alive.”
The part this story left out and I recall hearing earlier but can't find on the interwebs is the dude was trying to stay alive for out of concern for his kid (or maybe the unborn kid... I dunno) and didn't speak much english. Cummings was praying and the one word the guy seemed to respond to was Jesus.
Cummings constantly reached out to the "other side" even when there was no reciprocity.
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