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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSpc. Lauren Kopetzky was about to go grocery shopping when she heard arguing outside her apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The argument was disrupting the normally quiet neighborhood in Ames, Iowa, so Kopetzky decided to postpone her trip to the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“All of a sudden, for a moment I thought someone threw firecrackers at my window,” the multichannel transmission systems operator told Army Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kopetzky realized it wasn’t firecrackers\u00a0\u2014\u00a0one of the two men involved in the argument had been shot, with the shooter fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I ran out there to help [the man who had been shot] and ran back inside and grabbed some scarves and T-shirts and just whatever I could to try to do some first aid,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victim had been shot multiple times in the back and once in the leg, and she used the shirts and scarves to apply pressure to his wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was just kind of thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, how can I help this person?'” she said.
After calling 911, she spoke with the ambulance operator to guide them to their hard-to-find location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n