Buffalo winter storm blizzard | wfaa.com

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sha’Kyra Aughtry was on her sofa inside her Thatcher Avenue residence when she heard somebody exterior scream for assist.

A person she didn’t know was actually freezing. 

“The winds were sweeping him away.  I seen his body and then I didn’t see his body. He was stumbling and falling,” she mentioned.

Aughtry did not know the person and was hesitant about opening her door, however she noticed he wanted assist.

“I told my boyfriend Trent, hey, there is a guy outside we gotta bring him in,” however she mentioned he wasn’t on board straight away.

He went exterior and had a tough time bringing him indoors as a result of the person was almost frozen, “Ice balls was on his hands. He was like frozen, his pants were frozen, his shoes were frozen.”

She managed to chop a frozen bag off his arms, and get a hoop off of his finger as she observed he was shedding circulation.

Aughtry referred to as a member of the family out of state who’s a nurse to get help on the best way to proceed with frostbite and poor circulation as a result of chilly.

She requested the person his identify and he gave her the variety of his sister. It’s when she made the decision and discovered that the person Joe White, generally known as Joey was from a bunch residence within the space. He was attempting to go to work on the North Park Theatre.

Joey ended up staying with the household for 2 days. She was attempting to get assist by way of 911, and the National Guard to get him to a hospital within the blizzard.

Frustrated with no response, she made a plea on social media for assist to get him to a hospital. Good Samaritans responded, together with former soccer participant Doug Worthington.

Two different males arrived in a truck after seeing the outcry for assist and transported Joey to ECMC. He stays hospitalized.

“He said to me in the car and it touched me he said I’m scared. I said I’m scared too and he said am I gonna die. I said we’re not talking about dying.” Comforted along with her by his facet, she mentioned Joey then, “looked at me and said I love you and I said I love you too Joey.”

Her lifesaving effort has not gone unnoticed. Her identify alongside along with her boyfriend’s identify is now on a marquee on the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo. 

A employee there began a gofundme to indicate her appreciation.

“I appreciate it and my family appreciates it. I was just paying it forward like we all should do,” Aughtry mentioned in an interview with Two On Your Side’s Claudine Ewing.

The mom of three owns Heartfelt Cleaning LLC and works for Global Industrial Services Inc. as a janitorial supervisor.

Christmas morning, Joey needed pancakes and she or he made them for him and so they watched soccer.

“He will forever be a part of my family, no matter the color of our skin,” she mentioned, “we have to work together.”

On Monday, we spoke with Aughtry and she or he mentioned Joey is making main enhancements and hopes to be out of the hospital in a couple of week.