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KCPD WEBSITE. LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR NEVER HESITATED STEPPING IN TO SAVE A WOMAN’S LIFE AT A LOCAL ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. KMBC9 DORISSA WHITE SHOWS HOW LESSONS HE LEARNED FROM THE LAWRENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S TEEN ACADEMY MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. ADRIENNE IS A SENIOR THAT ATTENDS FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL HERE IN LAWRENCE. HE SAID HE WASN’T EXPECTING ALL OF THIS ATTENTION FOR SOMETHING THAT COMES NATURALLY TO HIM. HE SAID HE RECOGNIZED THE SIGNS OF SOMEONE CHOKING AND SPRUNG INTO ACTION. AS I WAS WALKING OUT, I HEARD SOMEONE CHOKING WAS LIKE, KIND OF SOUND. AND I WAS LIKE, OKAY, THAT’S A LITTLE CONCERNING. BUT THEY COUGH SOMETIMES. BUT IT WASN’T A COUGH. IT WAS INDEED A WOMAN IN HER 80S AT AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY, CHOKING ON HER CHICKEN DINNER. AND THAT’S WHEN 18 YEAR OLD ADRIENNE MENDOZA JUMPED INTO ACTION PERFORMING THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER. IT TOOK A COUPLE TRIES, BUT I SUCCESSFULLY DISLODGED WHAT WAS CHOKING HER. BUT THE WOMAN IS OKAY. AND EXTREMELY GRATEFUL, MENDOZA SAYS. HE OWES IT ALL TO A CLASS HE TOOK WITH THE LAWRENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT SUMMER TEEN ACADEMY. BUT I’D RATHER BE THE PERSON THAT KNOWS I COULD SAVE SOMEBODY. IF THEY’RE IN TROUBLE, THAN BE SOMEONE WHO JUST WATCHES HIS INSTRUCTORS AND COMMUNITY CALLING HIM A HERO. WHAT AN AWESOME KID HE IS. I THINK IT’S A REFLECTION OF OUR PROGRAM SHOWING THAT IT DOES, IN FACT, WORK. HE SAYS HELPING OTHERS JUST COMES NATURALLY TO HIM, AND THIS EXPERIENCE HAS SOLIDIFIED HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A POLICE OFFICER AFTER COLLEGE. REPORTING IN LAWRENCE DORISSA WHITE KMBC NINE NEWS NOW, ADRIENNE IS URGING OTHERS TO SIGN UP FOR LIFESAVING TRAINING, REMINDING EVERYONE THAT YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU’LL NEED IT. YOU KNOW JUST WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE ALL IS LOST, YOU HEAR ABOUT A YOUNG MAN LIKE THAT. GOOD ON ADRIENNE, GOOD ON THE LAWRENCE P.D. FOR A PROGRAM LIKE THAT. AN