Goodness of America
Brave High Schooler
Seventeen-year-old Daniel Wesley’s heroic actions could not save a woman from her deranged boyfriend, but at least he ensured that she was not alone when she died, even if it meant putting his own life in danger.
Wesley was driving home from the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge on November 26 when he saw 30-year-old April Peck being tossed from a car after she had been shot. He immediately jumped out of his car and went to her to try to stop the bleeding, but the man who shot Peck, her boyfriend Terrell Walker, came back and threatened Wesley and other bystanders who came to Peck’s aid.
“He gets out and he yells, ‘If you’re helping her, you are going to die, too,’ and he shot me in the butt and then he ran after everybody else,” Wesley told WAFB. “On his way back to the car, he shot me again in the arm and then my feet were hanging off of the curb and whenever he pulled away, he hit my legs and broke my femur in half.”
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