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Zach Porter, 27, of Cookeville, Tenn., collapsed due to cardiac arrest while at a TJ Maxx
Mike Brown, a CPR instructor who didn't want to go on a shopping trip with his wife but eventually did, administered first aid to Porter
Porter survived and later reunited with Brown for a TV broadcast
A man who reluctantly accompanied his wife on a shopping trip in Tennessee is being hailed as a hero for saving the life of a 27-year-old who went into cardiac arrest.
"I didn't want to go TJ Maxx with my wife, but I did," Mike Brown, a CPR instructor, told CBS affiliate WTVF in a report posted on Friday, Sept. 19. "And at the last minute, I decided to go in to herd her out of there. And there he was on the ground."
The victim, Zach Porter, of Cookeville, had collapsed at the store,