3 Red Bank Police Officers To Be Honored For Saving Bleeding Teen

RED BANK, NJ - Three officers from the Red Bank Police Department are slated to be given a Life Saving Award after saving a young resident’s life last week.

A resolution, which is up for adoption at a Nov. 10 borough council meeting, proposes that Cevin Albert, Milton Gray and Matthew Ehrenreichare be honored for their lifesaving service, per the recommendation of the Red Bank Chief of Police.

According to borough documents, the officers responded to a domestic dispute on Shrewsbury Avenue on Nov. 2 in which a 17-year-old male broke a window, unintentionally causing a severe laceration to his arm. Upon discovering the presence of arterial bleeding, the officers quickly determined that bleeding control was required as a lifesaving measure and thus applied a lifesaving tourniquet measure despite an uncooperative patient.

Police Chief Darren McConnell said Tuesday that, although the patient was not actively fighting with the officers at any time, he was “upset about the original dispute and was not cooperating with their care and was not following instructions, complicating the emergency treatment.”

“The quick thinking and prompt actions of the officers was later deemed necessary and appropriate as the patient had severed his brachial artery which would have caused a fatal loss of blood,” the resolution reads.

The patient was then transported by EMS to Jersey Shore Medical Center.

While there are no updates as of Tuesday on the patient’s condition, “his brachial artery was severed which could have caused a life threatening loss of blood if not for the measures taken by the officers,” according to Chief McConnell.

Although all Red Bank Police Department officers are equipped with Combat Application Tourniquets and have received extensive training with them, the devices have only been used once prior during an incident in 2019.

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