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Security Guard's Spine Crushed Saving Woman's Life
Wife: 'He's Just That Type Of Person'
POSTED: 5:18 pm CDT August 27, 2008
UPDATED: 8:14 pm CDT August 27, 2008
CHICAGO -- A security guard walking home after work is critically injured after making a split-second decision that saved a woman's life.
NBC5's Rob Stafford reported that Rogelio Rodriguez was walking behind the woman, a stranger he had never met, when witnesses said slabs of granite came crashing down from the side of the Chase Bank at the corner of Damen and Cermak.
"I saw my husband laying there in, like, a halo of blood around him," said Rodriguez's wife, Amelia.
Rodriguez was hit in the head and back, but said moments before impact he managed to push the woman to safety.
"That's who my husband is," Amelia Rodriguez said. "He'll put somebody else's life ahead of his. He's just that type of person -- he's very kind."
Rodriguez has yet to meet the woman whose life he saved.
Rodriguez is in intensive care at Stroger Cook County Hospital, Stafford reported. Rodriguez's wife said he will survive, but said he will never walk again.
"The moment the doctor told me that our whole life together for three years flashed before me," Amelia Rodriguez said. "All the activities we do -- we're not drivers, we do everything by foot."
We can't ever do the things we love," Amelia Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez added that though her husband's spine was crushed, her husband's spirit was not.
"I try not to cry and be strong for him, but it's hard," she said.
The Rodriguez family has hired a lawyer who is investigating the accident, Stafford reported, and a spokesman for Chase Bank said the bank is working with the lawyer and the family to reach a solution.
Wife: 'He's Just That Type Of Person'
POSTED: 5:18 pm CDT August 27, 2008
UPDATED: 8:14 pm CDT August 27, 2008
CHICAGO -- A security guard walking home after work is critically injured after making a split-second decision that saved a woman's life.
NBC5's Rob Stafford reported that Rogelio Rodriguez was walking behind the woman, a stranger he had never met, when witnesses said slabs of granite came crashing down from the side of the Chase Bank at the corner of Damen and Cermak.
"I saw my husband laying there in, like, a halo of blood around him," said Rodriguez's wife, Amelia.
Rodriguez was hit in the head and back, but said moments before impact he managed to push the woman to safety.
"That's who my husband is," Amelia Rodriguez said. "He'll put somebody else's life ahead of his. He's just that type of person -- he's very kind."
Rodriguez has yet to meet the woman whose life he saved.
Rodriguez is in intensive care at Stroger Cook County Hospital, Stafford reported. Rodriguez's wife said he will survive, but said he will never walk again.
"The moment the doctor told me that our whole life together for three years flashed before me," Amelia Rodriguez said. "All the activities we do -- we're not drivers, we do everything by foot."
We can't ever do the things we love," Amelia Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez added that though her husband's spine was crushed, her husband's spirit was not.
"I try not to cry and be strong for him, but it's hard," she said.
The Rodriguez family has hired a lawyer who is investigating the accident, Stafford reported, and a spokesman for Chase Bank said the bank is working with the lawyer and the family to reach a solution.
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