Collection:LPB

Genre: Awards

Place Covered: Central, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2017-05-07

Duration: 00:02:36

Subjects: Louisiana Young Heroes

Contributors:

• Alvarez, Dylan Host
• Wesley, Daniel Interviewee
• Prescott, David Interviewee
• Wesley, Kathy Interviewee

This segment from the 2017 Young Heroes Award Ceremony features a profile of honoree Daniel Wesley, a senior at Central High School. Wesley is an Emergency Medical Technician trainee who stopped to help a woman who had been thrown out of a car. He was shot and run over multiple times while administering first aid to the woman, who later died. He was left with a shattered arm and a broken thigh bone. His profile includes interviews with David Prescott, the principal at Central High School, and Kathy Wesley, his mother. Host: Dylan Alvarez