Hoke County woman alive thanks to Deputy's quick action and medical training

Deputies received a call at about 10:15 p.m. Monday night to a report of a father shooting his son on John Brown Road in Raeford.

Upon arrival, deputies found the son and another victim of the shooting.

"And so, when you're dealing with a domestic situation, you're involving weapons, being physical," Hoke County Sheriff Roderick Virgil said. "Then, a result of the physical or weapons being involved, there's always injuries."

Deputies say 70-year-old Jerome Johnson is accused of shooting his son.

The victim was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

While investigating the scene of the crime, Deputy Lee Black, who is trained as a medic, examined the victim's stepmother, who was also shot.

Black used his medical training to help stop the victim's bleeding.

"She actually had a through-and-through bullet wound in the lower palm of her hand," Black said.

Despite stopping the bleeding, Black also calmed the victim down until she could be taken to the hospital.

WRAL News was told there were no more medical units available to assist the officers at that location.

The officer's training as a medic was crucial at the scene. He's already had to perform as a deputy-medic on several occasions.

"That is a similar situation if we arrive on the scene and I get there first, and we got someone with a substantial injury," Black said. "I can progress into the advanced life support care."

So, this isn't the first time that Black had to use his medical training. Black told WRAL News he's done this at least six times since he joined the force.

Johnson was charged with felony first-degree murder and felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

He will be in court Wednesday and is being held without bond in the Hoke County Detention Center.