The sun was still out when Elizabeth Krost-Johnson heard her neighbor die.

She was taking out the trash as her neighbor’s ex-boyfriend stumbled onto her porch, bleeding profusely from what police said was a self-inflicted gunshot to the jaw.

Krost-Johnson plugged her thumb into his wound to stop the bleeding, saving the life of someone who officials would later charge with killing his ex-girlfriend one house over.

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