It was after midnight and chilly Oct. 17, when two military personnel driving home saw what looked like a blanket in the middle of the intersection at Academy Boulevard and Chelton Road in south Colorado Springs.
They could have kept going. But, something didn’t seem right, so they stopped.
In the middle of the road, Tech. Sgt. Rodney Reed and Sgt. 1st Class Travion Smith found a teen-aged boy who had been struck by a vehicle and left in the busy intersection. He was bloody, his face was starting to swell and he was at risk of being hit again by oncoming traffic.
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