On July 17, 2015, Officer Matthew Cammarn was on patrol in East Nashville when a shooting occurred on North Eighth Street. According to witnesses, two suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts entered an apartment, didn’t make any demands then shot a teenager in the leg. Fire personnel, who arrived later, reported the bullet had struck a major artery and the 17-year-old victim was losing a lot of blood. “There was blood all over the place!” Officer Cammarn added. “The bullet had entered the young man’s upper thigh and went through the other side.” “There was blood on me. There was blood on his pants,” Officer Cammarn later told reporters. Officer Cammarn said the teenager looked at him and begged, “Please help! Please help!” Armed with an emergency trauma kit Officer Cammarn quickly administered life-saving measures. “I put the quick clot bandage around, trying to get both holes,” he explained. “Got the tourniquet out around his thigh and cranked it down.” In a letter of commendation, Captain John Narramore with the Nashville Fire Department said, “It was the opinion of all medical personnel involved that Officer Cammarn’s quick action and proper procedure was the only reason we had a patient rather a fatality.” Cammarn said it felt great, but “that’s our job. We are guardians. We’re not warriors going out there looking for trouble. We are guardians of the civilians,” he explained.