Sometimes you read a news story that truly sends shivers down your spine.
This is one of them.
A man who rescued a police officer from a fiery accident has died just three weeks later…
In the EXACT same spot he rescued the officer.
According to Daily Mail:
Juan Carlos Salgado, 41, was killed when he was struck by two cars in succession while crossing a dimly lit road in Houston on Thursday night.
Salgado, who worked as a landscaper, was on his way to get dinner when he was struck outside of the crosswalk.
A shrine has now been set up for the landscaper just feet away from where he single-handedly rescued the police officer from on Christmas Eve.
‘He lost his life in the same place where he saved other lives,’ his uncle told KPRC2.
Tragic.
Just three weeks earlier, Salgado was walking home when he heard the crash involving a police cruiser and a drunken driver.
Witnesses said they saw Salgado running towards the fiery crash and pulling Houston police Officer Alonzo Reid from the wreck.
Reid and Salgado were then able to rescue officer John Daily from the driver’s seat.
Daily was seriously injured in the crash and suffered burns to more than 50 percent of his body.
“How am I going to leave a person in need? We’re all people,” Salgado said in an interview about his heroic efforts.
This is so sad. It truly doesn’t feel like real life.
But sometimes life is stranger than fiction.