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Via WREG:
Ten-year-old Tavon Tanner was sitting on the porch eating potato chips in early August when a stray bullet hit him in the back.
“I’m burning! I’m burning!” he screamed.
His twin sister, Taniyah, was inside the house at the time of the shooting.
She sensed something happened to her brother and rushed to his side, said their great aunt, Anitra Smith.
Taniyah held his hand pleading, “Twin don’t leave me, don’t leave me.”
Each time Tavon would roll his eyes shut, Taniyah would open them, Smith recalled.
Tavon lay wounded on the floor as his family looked on in horror.
What they didn’t know was that police were already on the way.
Chicago Police Sgt. Bryan Topczewski, who was leaving another homicide scene, heard the call — “child’s been shot” — and raced toward their house.
This was at least the fourth shooting that day, Topczewski said.
The sergeant arrived to find a chaotic scene. People were crying and screaming. Tavon’s family surrounded his small body.
“I approached and asked, ‘Where is he shot at?’ There were no blood stains soaking through the clothes. I looked at his face and could see blood coming out of his nose,” Topczewski said.
Topczewski knew from his training there could be internal bleeding.
He asked Tavon’s mother to look for bullet wounds while he ran to his squad car for his medical trauma pack.[…]
Smith said Tavon’s pancreas, spleen, intestines and kidneys were affected by the one bullet that entered his lower back. He is recovering in the hospital, and Smith said the family credits Topczewski with helping save his life.
“He did go beyond the call,” Smith said. “He’s our angel. He’s our guardian angel. He’s Tavon’s guardian angel and I appreciate him, and I appreciate the Chicago Police Department.”
When Smith first saw Topczewski after the shooting she threw her arms around him, kissed him on the cheek and thanked him for saving her great-nephew.
“He’s my hero,” she said.
After visiting with Tavon’s family, Topczewski stopped by the emergency room and the doctor gave him compression bandages to refill the medical trauma pack he used to save Tavon.
From his hospital bed, Tavon had a message for his guardian angel dressed in blue.
“Thank you.”