“It had gotten all over the back of my seat, there were clots on the floor … it was a mess,” said Alexis Margioras.
Friends helped raise some of the money through a crowd funding website, but she won’t need to use it now that a local company stepped up to help. Servpro, which specializes in tricky cleanups, cleaned her car free of charge.
Some of the $1,700 raised will go to Michael’s House, which assists abused children, she said.
She doesn’t regret helping the gunshot victim, who was reported in stable condition, but Margioras said she and her friend should have been a little more careful. “Looking back we should have been more aware of our surroundings because we weren’t worried about a shooter or anything.”
UPDATE @ 11:40 p.m. (Aug. 14)
A Bellbrook woman proves the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished.
The two good Samaritans credited with saving a gunshot victim’s life on Saturday are now $2,500 in the hole.
Rolandis Bush and Alexis Margioras were driving on Rustic Road when she saw a man struggling on the ground.
“She had her window cracked. All of a sudden we heard ‘Help I’ve been shot,’ ” Bush said.
Others passed by, but the two friends moved quickly to pull the gunshot victim into the back of Margioras’ car and make a tourniquet out of T-shirts off their backs.
“He was talking about he was getting lightheaded and dizzy in the car and about to pass out and everything,” Bush said. “So we get to the hospital and we run in there and say, ‘somebody’s been shot, somebody’s been shot’ and immediately they came running out.”
The man survived and is now in stable condition. But because of all the blood he had been gushing, the car is now considered a biohazard.
“There was so much blood on the floor, stuck underneath the flooring. The only way to get that properly cleaned is to pull up the flooring completely and pay another crime scene cleanup crew to come clean up what’s underneath, and pay another company to fix the flooring in the car. As well as they’re looking into the leather where it seeped into the seaming and the treading,” Margioras said.
It will cost an estimated $2,500, which is money the young mother and her friend don’t have. They are hoping a gofundme account will help so Margioras can safely put her daughter’s car seat in the back once again.
Knowing all the money it cost, Margioras said she doesn’t regret helping the man, that the life of a stranger was worth it.
UPDATE @ 9:50 p.m.
Passersby likely saved the life of a man who had been shot through both legs.
Rolandis Bush of New York City was in town visiting family and friends when he and his friend Alexis Margioras drove down Rustic Road this evening and heard a man who was dragging himself on the ground say “I’ve been shot.”
As many other cars drove by without stopping, Margioras put her car in reverse and the pair jumped out to help.
Bush took off his shirt and they used it to make a tourniquet for one of the man’s legs. They placed the man in back of the car and the good Samaritans then drove the man to the aptly named Good Samaritan Hospital.
“He was gushing blood everywhere,” Bush said, and one of his legs was so swollen it wouldn’t bend so they couldn’t close the car door all the way. “In the car, he was feeling light-headed and was gushing a lot of blood.”
At the hospital, the pair alerted staff and they ran out to the car. Police also arrived, and for about an hour had their car taped off.
They later learned the gunshot victim was transferred to Miami Valley Hospital and was in stable condition.
FIRST REPORT
A gunshot victim was dropped off this evening at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Dayton police around 6:20 p.m. requested an evidence crew in the 2200 block of Rustic Road in connection with the shooting. The victim apparently got a ride by private vehicle to the hospital.
The victim’s name, age, gender and condition were not immediately available.
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