Boone County Community Against Violence and MU Health Care may have helped save a life in the future.
The organizations came together Sunday afternoon at the Columbia Boys & Girls Clubs for a public health expo. It taught lifesaving techniques to about 50 people who could become potential bystanders.
The community group’s founder, Shaunda Hamilton, lost her daughter to gun violence in Columbia earlier this year. Hamilton’s daughter did not receive medical attention before first responders arrived on scene, so now Hamilton is giving others the tools to provide it.
Evan Spaulding, a paramedic who represented MU Health Care at the expo, teaches a free CPR class in his free time. He reached out to the community group because he wanted to teach CPR to people in underserved communities.
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