The Worcester City Council presented Jayxavien Nunez, who helped victims involved in the fatal Chandler Street crash, with a key to the city Tuesday.
Mayor Joe Petty said the honor was in recognition of his “selfless and life-saving actions at the car accident on the night of July 23.”
Nunez, 20, lives near the site where the accident took place. A white SUV, that police later discovered was stolen, crashed into two cars at the intersection of Chandler and Main Street. A 13-year-old girl that had been riding in the SUV died and the four other teenagers in the SUV were hospitalized.
Nunez was out grabbing some milk and juice when he saw the three-car crash take place, he told MassLive in July.
He ran over to the car, took off the shirt he was wearing and used it as a tourniquet on the leg of one of the teenagers who was bleeding and had a bone visibly showing.
When asked if he’d ever seen anything like the Chandler Street crash before, Nunez said only in the movies, but he said he had to do something.
“I couldn’t just watch it,” Nunez, who works going door to door for a solar company, said at a vigil for the victims of the crash on July 30.
“I just acted off of instinct. I didn’t do anything for clout,” Nunez told the crowd gathered at the vigil. He hadn’t wanted to come up and address the crowd, he said, but a lot of people encouraged him to do it.
At the city council meeting Tuesday night, Petty told Nunez the city’s got his back.
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