Shores Salter was a 20-year-old Northeastern University student when he ran toward the smoke from the Boston Marathon explosions.
’s life and created some lifelong friendships. But he says while that was a pivotal moment, it’s not what defines him.
”I just kind of stopped in my tracks and everything just moved beyond me. And I guess I had always thought that if I found myself in a moment like that, I would want to kind of respond the way that I did. So, I think in that moment where I paused, something within me, like a gut instinct, kind of drew me towards going towards it. And that's where I found Roseann," the now-30-year-old said.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
There are pictures and videos of Salter, in the middle of Boylston Street where he had carried Roseann. He’s holding a belt as a tourniquet on her right leg. She would eventually make it to Mass General Hospital while Salters was left wondering, ‘what happened to this young blonde woman, did she survive?’
“I thought that she was in her later 20s, which Roseann really thanks me for being so sweet and saying that. I mistook her for a few different people that were also victims that day. There were times where I didn't think that the woman I was tending to that day, that she had made it. And that was just kind of unbearable.”“I remember the first phone call I had with Roseann, which was just like, a gut punch, like a lot of burden was taken off my shoulders; a big sense of relief.
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