Marine comes to aid of Brockton shooting victim

Marine comes to aid of Brockton shooting victim
Enterprise Staff Writer
By Morgan True
Posted Aug 15, 2013

BROCKTON
Shawn Washington was cleaning his apartment on the second floor of a home at 49 Battles St. on the city’s north side Thursday just after 5:30 p.m. when he heard a commotion outside.

Moments later, there were two loud pops, said the 21-year-old Marine reservist, and he rushed to the window. “I looked out and saw two guys in white T-shirts run in opposite directions,” he said.

Washington said he then heard his downstairs neighbor, whom he knows only by the nickname “Mutt-mutt,” shout for another man to flee. Washington identified that man as Anthony Green.

Washington said he went outside and saw that Green had run down the block and was laying in the driveway at 28 Battles St.

Having learned first-aid in boot camp, Washington rushed to help Green. He said Green was shot in the upper thigh.

A group of neighbors had assembled around Green and Washington said they had tied a T-shirt around his leg as a tourniquet. The makeshift tourniquet was poorly tied, and no one was applying pressure to the wound, Washington said.
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