Troopers honored for saving Churubusco man

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE)  At a game Wednesday, January 2, the Indiana Pacers honored three state troopers who saved the life of a Churubusco man at a Notre Dame football game on October 13, 2012.

Troopers Brian McCall, Gary Runde, and Ryan Purkiser had just finished their pregame traffic direction assignments and were on foot patrol when they ducked into the Hammes bookstore on campus to get out of the rain. Shortly before 2:30 p.m. the troopers were approached and told that there was a male subject on the floor who wasn't breathing.

They discovered that man, Patrick Carpenter, 47, didn't have a pulse and began CPR. Within a few minutes medical personnel from the Notre Dame Fire Department and South Bend Fire Department arrived.
Carpenter was taken by ambulance to a South Bend hospital.