WENTZVILLE, Mo. — An assistant principal in the Wentzville School District received a major shoutout on social media after helping save a man’s life on Election Day.
Liberty High School was one of two schools that served as polling places in the school district.
Assistant principal Dr. Matt Kiesel was checking to ensure election officials had everything they needed when someone came running in asking for a defibrillator and said a man had just collapsed outside.
Kiesel quickly got a defibrillator from the nurse’s office and ran to help, the Facebook post stated.
Kenny Nowling of Lake Saint Louis said he was speaking with a man in line when he suddenly collapsed. Nowling said an off-duty police officer and his wife, a nurse, jumped in to perform CPR on the man while another person searched for a defibrillator.
Kiesel assisted with administering a shock with the device and the man slowly began to regain a pulse as paramedics arrived.
The man was alert and talking with paramedics as they closed the doors on the ambulance, according to Kiesel and Nowling.
“Thank you to the Lake Saint Louis police officer, his nurse and angel of a wife and Dr. Kiesel for acting so calmly and methodically and saving this man's life!” Nowling shared on social media. “You all are real life SUPER HEROS! What a perfect time for all of us to remember that, regardless of our political affiliations, we are all human beings living in the greatest country in the world.”