Driver faces felony charge after incident
SLIPPERY ROCK — It sounded like an ordinary call for paramedic Shawn Johnson. It turned into anything but ordinary.
While responding to treat a man in a still running car Saturday morning at the Slippery Rock Plaza parking lot, Johnson found himself being dragged as the man tried to drive away.
The 46-year-old paramedic with Slippery Rock EMS managed to stop the car and spare anyone — except himself — of injury.
State police arrested the driver, Dakota J. Hinchberger, 25, of Muddy Creek Township, on felony assault and other charges.
“I was mission focused,” Johnson said in an interview. “It's a busy parking lot. I was 100 percent committed to stopping the vehicle, for everyone's safety.”
He was dragged 7 to 10 feet, police said, before he accomplished his mission. He got the car stopped and took the keys.
A full story appears in the Butler Eagle.
