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San Francisco nurse honored after rendering life-saving aid at Ninth Street shooting
Summary
The San Francisco Police Department recognized Carissa Cleverly Valencia, a UCSF registered nurse, for applying emergency first aid at the scene of a January 27 shooting on Ninth Street that officers said likely saved a victim’s life.
Carissa Cleverly Valencia, a registered nurse at UCSF, received a citizen-recognition award from the San Francisco Police Commission on June 11 for rendering emergency aid at the site of an officer-involved shooting on Jan. 27.
The recognition followed a presentation from Tenderloin Station officers describing how, as she returned from work, Cleverly Valencia saw a man lying on the ground at the unit block of Ninth Street after multiple gunshot wounds. According to Sergeant Coleman, she ran into traffic to reach the victim, removed her sweater and applied direct pressure to the victim’s facial wound until San…
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