Three Boone Sheriff’s officers — Sgt. Jared Horton, Deputy Bryan Rondeau and Deputy C.J. Weires — were honored with the Deputy/Lifesaver’s Medal the morning of June 14 for saving the life of Independence resident Gary Spare, who had gone into cardiac arrest while refilling his car at a gas station on Mt. Zion Road the morning of May 3.
According to a statement on the Boone County Sheriff’s Facebook page, the officers arrived and used CPR and an automatic electronic defibrillator, or AED, on Spare, who “immediately showed some signs of improvement.”
When EMS arrived, they transported Spare to the hospital, where he made a full recovery.
