On September 21, 2017, three boys — Devonte Cafferkey, 13, Sammy Farah, 14, and Shawn Young, 12 — were on their way back from school when they spotted the unthinkable.
The trio of high school students noticed a man standing on the edge of an overpass in the UK who looked visibly distraught.
Then they saw the rope around his neck. They realized he was about to jump to his death.
Devonte, Sammy and Shawn tried talking the troubled man out of it — and when he went to jump, they grabbed onto him. As Shawn ran to call 911, 47-year-old Joanne Stammers happened to be walking by when she saw the commotion. Quickly grasping the dire situation, she took Shawn's place and held onto the man.
Despite the fact Joanna has a disability that makes her prone to blood clots and the bruises it left all over her arms, Joanne tried with all her might to keep the man from falling. And she had no idea at the time that the man was passing out and getting heavier and heavier for the boys as the seconds ticked by.
While crying and wiping his eyes, the suicidal man passed the boys his cell phone and said, 'If it rings, don't answer it."
Devonte, Sammy and Shawn didn't think he would listen to their pleas to not jump because of their age. But as you're about to see, their actions saved a life that day.
