By Piper Hansen and Christopher Leach
Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Police body camera footage released Thursday shows bystanders helping a Kentucky State Police trooper who was shot during a July 13 traffic stop outside Blue Grass Airport in Lexington.
In the video, a group of people are shown running across a field to aid trooper Jude Remilien, who had just been shot in the leg on Terminal Drive.
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The shooter, Guy House, left the scene and shot and killed two people and injured two others at Richmond Road Baptist Church. He was eventually shot and killed by police.
Jimmy Alexander, Jessica Alexander, Taylor Hall and Adam Arnold — the four good Samaritans who helped the trooper — received citations for meritorious achievement Oct. 23 during a news conference in Frankfort.
“To be nominated, an individual must have performed an incredible act of service or heroism in the direct support of an agency officer that resulted in the saving of a human life or halted a major crime in progress,” Sgt. Matt Sudduth said Thursday. “The nominee must have acted voluntarily and at great personal risk or sacrifice.”
KSP Post 12 Capt. Doug Carter nominated the quartet for the award.
He said the Alexanders and Hall were at the airport about to depart for vacation when they saw Remilien in need of help.
Jimmy Alexander used a belt as a makeshift tourniquet while Jessica Alexander and Taylor Hall applied pressure to the wound. The three offered Remilien water, checked his pulse and talked with him to keep him from passing out, Remilien’s body-worn camera footage shows.
Arnold arrived at the scene, applied a proper tourniquet to Remilien’s injured leg and called for more help. The four stayed with the trooper until EMS arrived.
“Had it not been for the quick reaction and training of Trooper Remilien during that traffic stop, coupled with the four individuals who rendered aid to him, I firmly believe the outcome could have been entirely different,” said State Police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. Thursday. “There is no doubt that Trooper Remilien is here with us today because of all those actions.”
House shot and killed mother and daughter Beverly Gumm, 72, and Christina Combs, 32 at the church about 16 miles from the airport before he was killed by police.
Thursday’s news conference, Jimmy Alexander said he was ecstatic to meet Remilien and see him walking.
“If it was my son or me, I’d want somebody to do the same thing,” he said. “That’s just how I was raised, take care of people, don’t think twice.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear attended the award presentation, too.
“Today’s guests of honor remind us that even during what seems like chaotic and divisive times, that there are still so many good Kentuckians out there willing to do good in the world,” he said. “Trooper Jude Remilien, Jimmy Alexander, Jessica Alexander, Taylor Hall and Adam Arnold exemplify this goodness.”
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