Randy Vitales is a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Dover High
School in Oklahoma. Last Thursday, Randy’s high school basketball team had a tournament
at Mulhall-Orlando High School, a forty-minute drive from Dover. About three
minutes into the game, Randy went into full cardiac arrest on the court. Eighteen-year-old
Magnus Miller, a player on the opposing team from Life Christian Academy, talks
about what happened: “He just went to lay up, and I was getting the ball, about
to dribble up the court, and I turn around, and he’s on the ground.” Magnus is
trained as a lifeguard, so he stepped up. “I didn’t have any second thoughts
about it. I just jumped in and took control.” He used a defibrillator and
helped the coaches with CPR until the Guthrie Fire Department arrived. The first
responders called Magnus a rock star and a guardian angel, and said “without a
shadow of a doubt,” he saved Randy’s life.
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