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An 11-year-old Oklahoma boy is being called a hero after his quick thinkingsaved two livesin a single day.
School officials say Davyon Johnson helped save a choking classmate and a woman with a walker attempting to escape a house fire in just a matter of hours on Dec. 9.
Muskogee Public Schools, the Muskogee Police Department, and the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Department honored Johnson for his heroics at a Muskogee Board of Education meeting on Dec. 14.
At the event, Undersheriff Greg Martin gave the sixth-grader a certificate naming himan honorary deputyfor the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office.
“We are all so proud of you, Davyon!!” wrote the sheriff’s office in a post on Facebook.
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Principal Latricia Dawkins deemed Johnsona “dual hero"in an interview withThe Muskogee Phoenix.
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The first incident, Dawkins said, occurred during the school day. The principal told thePhoenixthat Johnson jumped into action after one of his classmates at the 6th and 7th Grade Academy accidentally swallowed a water bottle cap after attempting to unscrew it with his mouth.
Johnson “immediately sprinted over” to the choking child and performed the Heimlich maneuver, Dawkins said. “From the account of the witnesses, when he did it the bottle cap popped out,” she explained.
Describing the incident, Johnson said he wrapped his arms around his classmate and “burped him kind of.” He told thePhoenixthat he learned how to do the Heimlich maneuver on YouTube, and suggests others do the same.
“Just in case you’re in the situation I was in, you can know what to do,” he told the outlet.
But Johnson’s heroism didn’t end there.
After school, Johnson spotted a woman with a walker attempting to escape a burning home. The boy says the blaze began at the back of the building, “but it eventually got to the front of the house.”
That’s when Johnson jumped into action.
“It was a disabled lady and she was walking out of her house,” Johnson said of the incident to thePhoenix. “She was on her porch. But I thought, being a good citizen, I would cross and help her get into her truck and leave.”
LaToya Johnson, the boy’s mother, told the outlet that her son’s actions aren’t entirely surprising. In addition to the boy’s dream of becoming an EMT, LaToya says her brother, Wendell Johnson, is an emergency medical technician.
“I’m just a proud mom,” she said.
source: people.com
