Jaimire Dutrieuille , former Slippery Rock University wide receiver who saved his 9-year-old niece's life and was wounded during a shooting in North Braddock May 28.

Jaimire Dutrieuille awoke from a five-day coma and peered around his Pittsburgh hospital room.

The North Braddock native and former standout wide receiver at Slippery Rock University didn't know where he was or what had happened to him.

Family members told him the story of how he was sitting on his sister's front porch in North Braddock on the evening of May 28 when shots rang out.

Of how he instinctively jumped in front of his 9-year-old niece, shielding her from the raining bullets.

Of how he was wounded four times, including once in the back of the head.

Of how he was a hero.

“Honestly, I don't remember anything,” Dutrieuille, 25, said from his hospital bed Thursday evening. “It sounds like something I would do.”

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