UPS driver Raheem Cooper spotted an an elderly woman collapsed on her driveway, and helped save her life.
He was driving along his normal route in Valdosta, Georgia, when he saw the woman and called emergency services. Cooper stayed with the woman, identified later as Marie Coble, all the while calling her ‘grandmother.’
The ambulance took her straight to the hospital where emergency brain surgery had to be performed - happily it all went successfully and she is now recovering. In the meantime, Kayla Cochran heard of what Cooper had done for her grandmother and decided to track him down.
“I found his number and called him and told him thank you,” Cochran told the local news station. “That he was truly an angel to our family to have found her because if he wouldn’t have, she would have died that day.”
“Five days after the surgery, she hadn’t talked at all,” Cochran said. “And when he came into the room, she brightened up and actually pushed herself up and gave him a hug. That’s the first time since this whole thing has happened.”
Further extending his qualification as an angel, Cooper started a GoFundMe to raise money for the family because most of them have to drive in from out of town to stay with Coble while she recovers - and got the fund drive off to an instant start with $100 of his own money.
Raheem Cooper has received a letter from UPS’s chief executive officer for his acts of heroism and kindness. At his local branch, a coworker got him tickets to the Florida State University football game, and the supervisor presented him with a plaque in his honor.
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