Video shows ‘Good Samaritan’ helping shooting victim on near west side of Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS — An act of kindness following an act of violence — all caught on camera. The community is now praising a man who jumped into action after hearing gunshots and cries for help.

Early Sunday morning, IMPD officers found a person shot and injured on 10th Street. Shortly after, another victim showed up at the hospital.

Nearby home security camera footage captured rapid gunfire piercing through the nighttime stillness, a series of cars speeding down the street, and minutes later, a man limping down the sidewalk toward anyone willing to help.

“You need some help?” one man is heard saying in the video.

“Yes, I’m shot,” the victim replied. “Sir, please help me, please.”

“I would want somebody to help my child or me if I was in that situation,” the man from the video told FOX59/CBS4.

The man shown helping the victim asked to remain anonymous while the video racks up hundreds of shares and thousands of likes on Facebook.

“Nobody should just walk over anybody when they’re laying on the ground dying, bleeding or just gasping for a drink of water,” the man said.

Commenters are commending him as a “Good Samaritan” for helping without hesitation, but the man said he didn’t do it for the praise — he didn’t even know it was going to be posted online.

“I have a daughter, help,” the victim cried out in the video.

“I have two daughters of my own,” the helper said. “It hit me in the heart, and I wanted to help him.”

The man said it’s not uncommon to hear gunshots in his near west side neighborhood. The next street over is where IMPD found the first victim. Despite not knowing who or where the shooter was, the man said his priority was getting the second victim to the hospital quickly. So, he carried him on his back to his car and even made sure to grab the victim’s other shoe before driving off — without taking the time to put any on himself.

Now knowing the victim he helped is stable, all the man wants is for this to serve as a reminder for neighbors to look out for each other.

“I just think everybody should help everybody,” the man said. “No matter color, race, gender or anything. Everybody needs help sometimes and whatever it is, help them.”

IMPD has yet to publicly identify a suspect at this point in its investigation of the shooting.