A former Enloe High School football star is now being recognized for his bravery after he helped rescue a man from a crashed car just before it burst into flames.
Larry Pickett Jr, now in college at West Point in New York, ran towards the car after it crashed in Fort Montgomery, New York, just after midnight.
The 20-year-old helped pull the disoriented man from the car, which caught on fire seconds later.
WRAL News spoke with his father, Larry Pickett Sr., who said helping people is just his son’s second nature.
“I remember right before we brought him to West Point, he actually chased down somebody that was shoplifting from a store in Raleigh,” Larry Pickett Sr. said. “It was like, ‘LJ, that’s dangerous. Like, you don’t know what he could have had on him.’ It’s just his instinct to be there and to help people, and obviously his training at West Point.”
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Larry Pickett Sr. said he did not know the man who crashed condition, though he said his injuries did not seem serious.
There is no word on what caused the crash.
