Joe Martinelli and Charles Daly grew up across the street from each other in the Budlong Woods neighborhood. They went to Transfiguration Elementary School together. They played baseball and football together.
[...] On Tuesday, the two boyhood buddies were re-united as heroes.
Martinelli, 38, a Chicago firefighter, was awarded the Lambert Tree Award, this year’s highest award for fire bravery.
Daly, 39, received the Carter Harrison Award, the year’s most prestigious police award.
Daly’s heroics occurred in October, 2008, after he and another officer engaged in a foot chase with a man they saw creating a disturbance at Chicago and Homan.
During the chase, the offender was observed pulling a handgun from his waist band before stumbling to the ground. As the partners attempted to disarm the man, the offender bit both officers on the hand as he tried to grab one of their weapons.
The man then pointed his own gun directly at Daly’s partner from point blank range. Daly calmly fired a single shot, wounding the offender and saving his partner’s life.
mardi 6 octobre 2009
Heroes
And a good job by the firefighter also.
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