Police help injured man

NILES

Police officers responding to a domestic disturbance Monday at the Timber Creek apartments on North Road may have saved a life by applying a tourniquet to a man’s badly bleeding arm after he punched multiple glass windows.

When officers arrived for the 11:23 p.m. call, they found the man, 20, punching plate-glass windows, the last of which caused a severe cut to his head and arm, the department’s Facebook page says.

Officers retrieved two tourniquets from their cruisers and applied them to contain the bleeding until ambulance personnel arrived.

Body camera video of the incident is on the department’s Facebook page. On it, the man can be heard saying, “Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. I’m losing a lot of blood,” as the officers went to work on him. “I’m not trying to die,” he said.

Felony vandalism will be filed when he is released from the hospital, police said.