Here’s how an SFPD sergeant may have saved 49er Ricky Pearsall’s life (paywall)
“By that time, [Sgt. Joelle Harrel] grabbed Pearsall’s shirt, pressing it into his chest to create pressure on the wound. She pressed her baseball cap against the exit wound in his back.
“I was using my hand for the front just to create a suction so the air wouldn’t enter the wound,” she said.
She said she could feel him getting tense, the anxiety and fear filling him as he realized the extent of his injuries. He was a football player, he said, for the 49ers.