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Police honor Mattern, Schock for saving stabbing victim last fall

Submitted Photo The Minot Police Department honored Clayton Mattern, 19, left, with the Citizen Life Saver Award and Tanner Schock, 19, right, with the Good Samaritan Award during an award ceremony on Thursday. According to Minot police officer Anthony Hugg, center, who wrote that he been doing a courtesy check at the time for the McLean County Sheriff’s Office regarding a stabbing at a party near Roseglen, Mattern pulled people away from a 20-year-old stabbing victim in Roseglen on Sept. 27, 2020. The victim had a stab wound on the left side of his neck. No one at the party wanted to help the victim out of fear of being arrested for underage drinking and marijuana use. Mattern located Schock, who helped him get the victim into the vehicle and drove 60 miles to Trinity Hospital in Minot. Mattern used his own shirt and the victim’s shirt to suppress the bleeding in the victim’s neck. Mattern and Schock also tried to keep the victim awake by talking to him. Emergency room staff told police that the victim probably would have died of his wound, which was about 3/4 of an inch deep, if not for the actions of Mattern and Schock.

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