Man honored for rescuing child in pit bull attack June 08 (photo of the hug!)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10559335

Published Monday February 9, 2009
Man honored for rescuing child in pit bull attack

The Omaha man who helped pull a pit bull off a toddler, then retrieved the little girl's scalp was honored this morning.

Mayor Mike Fahey declared it Stefan Ray day, a tribute to the heroics the man showed last summer when Charlotte Blevins was attacked by a dog near 14th and Pine Streets.

Ray heard cries for help, sprinted outside in his underwear and helped pull the pit bull off Charlotte, another toddler and their mothers.

Ray and a police officer then found a piece of Charlotte's scalp lying in the children's wagon. After Ray put the scalp on ice, the officer drove it to the hospital so it could be reattached to Charlotte's head.

"I have my own day. It's kind of cool," Ray said of the honor. But he added, "I'd do it all over again for nothing."

-Judith Nygren


Stephan Roy hugs Charlotte as they meet in the lobby of the Mayor's office before the press conference as Roy was honored by Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey for coming to the aid of then 16-month-old Charlotte Blevins, her mother Wendy Blevins and other victims of a vicious pit bull attack in June of 2008.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Now THAT'S a hero.

Anyone who puts himself in the line of fire of a vicious baby-murdering killing-machine like a pit-bull is a hero in my book.

:popcorn: :hide:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Hooray for Stephan Roy!

He is, indeed, a real hero.