MO Fire Chief Discusses Valiantly Trying to Save a Shooting Victim -- His Son
As a former police officer, Inter City Fire Chief Jeff Jewell has has seen a lot. But nothing could prepare him for what he encountered when he opened the door of his fire station one cold day. hands.
“Not in a million years would you think you’re going to work on your own child,” he told Fox4 reporters.
On that fateful February winter day, that’s exactly what happened.
“The door, the Ring doorbell went off again, and that’s when we heard the suspect tell us she had just shot my son,” Jewell said.
“We went out there and started the process of trying to get him out of the truck and give him CPR,” Jewell explained
Sarah Devera was arrested the next day. She pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
“It didn’t help at all. I mean everyone loses on this, her family loses. Nothing is going to bring my son back, and now I’m raising a 5-year-old. So yeah, nobody wins."
The chief says he misses his smiling son, a veteran and first responder, every day.
