6th grader saves choking schoolmate and older woman from fire in the same day

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Davyon Johnson, 11, couldn't quite understand it: the pizza party, the accolades from the mayor of Muskogee, Okla., his picture in the newspaper and on television — and the word that had been linked to his name: hero.

Why, the sixth grader asked his mother, was he being rewarded for doing the right thing?

"I told him, 'You saved two people's lives,'" said LaToya Johnson, Davyon's mother. "'That is special.'"

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And so began a whirlwind December for Davyon, who lives in Muskogee, Okla., who loves wrestling, basketball, remote-controlled cars and Fortnite, and who was honored by his community this month for saving the life of a fellow student who was choking and an older woman who was escaping a house fire, both on the same day, Dec. 9.

The Muskogee Police Department and Muskogee County Sheriff's Office presented Davyon with a certificate on Dec. 15, naming him an honorary member of their forces.

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Unless asked by others, Davyon does not tell people what he did on Dec. 9. And when he is asked, he describes it all briefly, without fuss.

"The right thing to do." That's how he puts it.

But there was one person he did want to tell. One morning this month, he put on his sneakers and gray hoodie and went to the cemetery to see his father.

He squatted, picked at the dirt and started to tell the stories, beginning with the scene at the water fountain.

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A 6th Grader Saves the Lives of Two People on the Same Day (Published 2021)

Davyon Johnson, 11, has been honored for his Dec. 9 interventions but says he doesn’t understand the attention he’s drawn. It was “the right thing to do,” he said.

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Do the right thing if old

 

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6th Grader from Oklahoma saves classmate from choking and an elderly woman from a burning house on the same day

https://www.essence.com/news/sixth-grader-saves-choking-student-woman-housefire/ Already a bigger hero than all the Oklahoma sports teams.

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