CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — As two women continue to recover after being shot at last Friday night’s Chicago White Sox game, a doctor who helped provide immediate treatment to the shooting victims has shared her experience.
Dr. Jeanne Farnan was sitting in the same section as the victims when she said someone started calling for help. A person was bleeding. Farnan made her way over. She said the person didn’t know what happened.
“She said she heard what sounded like a bottle breaking, and then she felt a sting and then grabbed her leg,”said Farnan. “That’s when she started bleeding.”
The victim was a 42-year-old woman. With her was a man who was already applying pressure to what appeared to be a gunshot wound. After she was stabilized, Farnan went over to another victim, a 26-year-old woman.
Farnan said the 26-year-old lifted up her shirt to reveal what looked like a cigar burn. It was later determined to be a graze wound from a bullet.
“She just felt like something pinched her,” Farnan said.
She brought the 26-year-old woman back over to the area where the first victim was sitting. That way, everyone would be in Farnan’s proximity. As she returned to the first victim, Farnan said an EMS worker with the White Sox showed her what clearly appeared to be an entry wound from a gunshot on the 42-year-old’s thigh.
Farnan and the EMS worker exchanged “very perplexed” looks, she said. That’s when another person walked up to Farnan and said, “Someone found this.”
“She put the bullet in my left hand,” Farnan said.
“The EMS guy and I made eye contact and kind of put it all together, like, ‘OK, this is what’s going on,’” she said.
Farnan said people in that area self-evacuated because there was blood everywhere. She went with her group up to the concourse, in part because she wasn’t sure whether the White Sox were going to suspend the game.
Farnan told WBBM she can't comment on whether the White Sox should have suspended the game. Chicago police said that at no time did they believe there was an active threat.
Looking back, Farnan said she doesn't feel like a good Samaritan.
“The person who made the biggest difference, I think, in this entire scenario, was the companion of the first woman who was shot,” she said. “His quick thinking — putting pressure on that wound immediately — was the difference between a good outcome and, potentially, a not good outcome.”
Farnan added that it’s very important for everyone, not only first responders, to be “vigilant in situations and to understand what they can do as a bystander.”
“It’s unfortunate that this is the world that we live in now,” she said.
On Monday, Interim Chicago Police Supt. Fred Waller said it was likely that shooting originated inside the stadium. On Thursday, White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf told a small group of reporters that he didn’t “see any way in the world that the shots could’ve come from inside the ballpark.”
WBBM has reached out to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office for an update.
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