Oct 10, 2024
Twelve-year-old Eddie Walker’s walk to school last week in Humboldt Park took an unexpected turn when he witnessed a car collide with a moped, slamming the moped driver onto the street.The crash happened about 8 a.m. Oct. 1. The moped driver and the driver of a sport utility vehicle were both traveling east on West Division Street when the SUV driver tried turning right onto North Lawndale Avenue but collided with the moped, Chicago police said.Eddie, a seventh grader who lives in Humboldt Park, was a block away from arriving at Cameron Elementary School. But he immediately sprinted across the street to help the moped driver, who happened to be Eddie’s neighbor, Francisco Jaimes.Eddie took off his jacket and used it to apply pressure to Jaimes’ head, which was bleeding heavily.“It was like very scary because I was nervous because of seeing all that blood and not knowing if he was going to make it or not,” Eddie told the Sun-Times.Another witness called 911. Eddie waited with Jaimes on the street for about 30 minutes until an ambulance arrived, he said.“He was very bad, like badly hurt. He didn’t even know which street he was on. He was blacking out almost,” Eddie said.The driver of the SUV, a 67-year-old woman, remained at the scene and was not issued any citations, police said. Francisco JaimesProvided Jaimes was on his way to work at Blue Line Barbers in Logan Square for one haircut appointment that morning, which he had debated doing because he had planned on moving to his new home in Pilsen later that day, he said.He remembers saying hello to Eddie and his friend as he drove by, but he does not recall Eddie being there to help him as he lay unconscious on the ground.“I was passing by and I said hi to them, then after that I don’t know what happened,” Jaimes said. “Next thing I know, I was in a hospital, they ripped my clothes off, I had a closed eye, I had injuries to my head, a contusion.”Jaimes was at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he received 12 stitches to his forehead and another four stitches near his eye. He also bruised his pelvis and liver, he said, and stayed in the hospital for three days.Eddie said he learned some life-saving measures, like applying pressure to wounds, from his time with the anti-violence youth group House of Hope Foundation.“We’re trying to do something special for him, try to get him a plaque or a gift card or something just to show him some love because he didn’t have to do what he did,” said Shawn Childs, founder of the youth group.While waiting for an ambulance, Eddie called Childs, who then contacted Jaimes’ girlfriend to tell her about the crash.Jaimes’ girlfriend later told him that Eddie was the first person to help him and that he stayed with him at the scene.“He was my savior in that moment,” Jaimes said of Eddie. “... What it means to me is priceless because I’ve never seen a soul like him do something like that.”
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