Mo. EMT shot while transporting shooting victim
By Leah Thorsen
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Mo. — An emergency medical technician treating a gunshot victim in an ambulance en route to a hospital was hit by gunfire, police said late Monday.
The gunfire started about 9 p.m. Monday, when two young men who were sitting in a car in the 1300 block of North 51st Street in Washington Park were shot, Illinois State Police Sgt. Dave Wasmuth said.
Both victims had serious injuries, Wasmuth said.
As one of the victims was being taken by ambulance to Kenneth Hall Regional Medical Center in East St. Louis, shots struck the MedStar ambulance, hitting the EMT.
The extent of the injuries to the EMT were unknown, said Herb Simmons, operations manager of MedStar ambulance service.
The EMT was taken to Kenneth Hall hospital and then flown to a hospital in St. Louis. Simmons and several other MedStar workers gathered at Kenneth Hall.
The ambulance shooting happened on Interstate 64 shortly after the gunfire in Washington Park.
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