News January 26, 2022
11-Year-Old Saves Classmate & Elderly Lady ON SAME DAY!

An 11-year-old Oklahoma boy is being honored after he saved his choking classmate and rescued an elderly woman from a house fire on the exact same day!
According to a Facebook post from Muskogee Public Schools, Davyon Johnson — a sixth-grader at The 6th & 7th Grade Academy at Ben Franklin in Muskogee, Oklahoma — performed both heroic deeds on December 9.
Principal Latricia Dawkins told the Enid News and Eagle that a student was removing the cap from their water bottle when the cap got stuck in their throat. Davyon then saw the student choking and successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver — which he’d learned by watching YouTube videos.
“He has always indicated that he wants to be an EMT,” Dawkins told the newspaper. “So he got to put that desire into action and immediately saved that young man.”
That evening around 5 p.m., Davyon was with his mother in their car when she spotted a small fire near a home.
“She thought it was a campfire, but I told her to turn around. She turned around, and there was a fire in the house,” Davyon told People on Wednesday. ”Everybody had ran out except for an elderly lady.”
That’s when Davyon sprang into action and ran across the street, raced up the porch steps, and helped the woman escape the burning building, telling her, “It’s going to be okay.”
“She could probably have passed away,” he said about the scary event, adding, “It makes me feel incredible that I saved two people’s lives in one day.”
Days later, Davyon was named an honorary police officer, honorary sheriff’s deputy, and a hero during a Muskogee School Board meeting.
Muskogee Mayor Marlon Coleman also declared December 10 as Davyon Johnson Day.
“He’s always been a helpful person, from, I would say, about 3 or 4 years old,” Davyon’s mom, LaToya Johnson, told People. “He’s always just been willing to help.”
Sadly, Davyon’s day of heroism came months after his father Willie James Logan, 52, died from COVID-19.
“One of the staff members that’s close to Davyon asked what made him run into the house to save the lady,” Dawkins said, “and he said that that was something that he knew that his father would do.”
In fact, Davyon was quoted as saying via the New York Times, “I look up to my dad.”
“His father is his hero,” Dawkins continued to People, “and he just could hear his voice.”
As Dawkins said, Davyon — who enjoys wrestling, football, basketball and playing the video game ”Fortnite” — hopes to become an EMT, or a nurse or a doctor.
“I want to be in the medicine field,” the heroic boy told People, “period.”