At 9:30 a.m. on his very first delivery of the morning, mail carrier Scott Gallegos was approached by a woman near Madison Avenue in Carmichael. He heard a knock on the window of his truck. She was covered in blood.

“She had been shot, she started to fade out, I sat her down,” Gallegos said. “I saw a wound on her. I laid her down.”

But then, to his surprise, he said more shots were fired.

Gallegos, who has been a mail carrier for only four weeks, got between the woman and the alleged shooter.

“When you see something like that, instinct takes over,” he said. “You just do what you have to do.” Read more