A Chicago man is being heralded as a hero after saving a man from being electrocuted after he fell into subway tracks and landing on the third rail. The real-life Superman, who secured the victim and risked being harmed himself, administered CPR in an effort to resuscitate him after the horrific accident.
On Wednesday, June 8, Anthony Perry was celebrated by community leaders for his heroism at the 69th Street Red Line CTA Station in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on Sunday, June 5, around 3:30 p.m.
Chicago philanthropist and entrepreneur Early Walker, founder of the “I’m Telling, Don’t Shoot” organization, surprised the young man with a car for risking his life for someone else.
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Walker presented the hero with a gas card at the ceremony.
The Harold L. Richards High School graduate was clueless why he would need a gas card. At the time, he did not have a vehicle to drive. The philanthropist then surprised Perry with a new car.
Perry, who previously spent 90 minutes after taking two buses and a train to work every day, now could drive in style with a 2008 Audi A6.
The young man also couldn’t believe what happened on one of his last hour and a half commutes to work.
According to authorities, there was a fight between the 32-year-old victim and another man that went horribly wrong that sparked Perry’s heroism.
Fox Chicago reported the man who fell was approached and spat on by another man. That led to a fight that landed both men on the tracks. Bystanders watched in awe as a CTA train stopped inches away from the two.
During the fight, the victim, who wore a white shirt, got trapped on a third rail.
A video of the incident, showing the man’s body pulsating as 600 volts of electrical charges races through his body, was captured and posted to Facebook.
Perry, who had just come off the train, noticed the man’s fall. He instantly leaped into action and jumped to the tracks, carefully stepping over the third rail in an effort not to harm himself.
“I don’t think I was thinking about what could happen to me at the moment,” he said in an interview with WGN-TV. “It was more of what do I have to do to make the situation peaceful. I felt a little shock. I felt it all over my body, and then I just didn’t let that stop me.”
