If there’s anything we love more than good news, it’s honest to goodness heroes. Dragging a fellow officer to safety in the middle of a gunfight . . . does that classify as a hero? Yeah, we thought so too.
You may or may not have heard about Matthew Hastings. The Vancouver man barricaded himself inside a Clark County home in 2007, shot a cop and held the rest at bay for nearly a full day.
Now, almost two full years later, the team who dragged the shot officer to safety are receiving the Washington State Medal of Honor. Cpl. Chris LeBlanc (the one who got hurt), Ofc. John Key, Dep. Scott Holmes and Sgt. Scott Schanaker (all of various law enforcement agencies in Clark County) will receive the medals in May on the steps of the state capitol.
Kudos to this amazing quartet!
