Overview
- Officer Tyler Ingram raced to a single-vehicle crash just after midnight on Sept. 30 on I-30 and found a sedan engulfed in flames.
- He pried open a bent door and pulled the driver out roughly 30 seconds after reaching the car as flames neared the passenger compartment.
- Bodycam and dashcam video released by Mesquite Police shows officers moving the woman to safety and applying a tourniquet to a severe leg wound.
- Police identified the driver as 21-year-old Jacqueline Tenorio, who was hospitalized and later charged with driving while intoxicated, which the department said was her first offense.
- Mesquite Police publicly praised Ingram’s actions, with the officer saying he feared the woman might not survive if he couldn’t free her in time.