VIDEO: Man who helped wounded trooper speaks

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Former police officer Ward Hamilton, an employee of Central Oil in downtown Chicopee, helped wounded State Trooper John Vasquez get to safety during a standoff between a suspect and police in the downtown area Thursday morning.

With blood still on his clothes, Hamilton spoke with 22News about what he saw at Center and West Streets Friday morning.

“He (the suspect) was just firing at anything and everything that was moving. It was extremely scary. There was a moment where I think everyone, the troopers, the state, the Chicopee police, they were getting organized, and somebody said ‘there’s a kid coming out,’ and this will be forever burned and engraved in my head, just this little kid coming out in what looked like just his underwear, and he just tiptoed across the street,” Hamilton said.