NFL QB Anthony Richardson rescues stranded couple, pays for new tires after no one would stop to help



Star quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts Anthony Richardson came to the rescue of a couple who was stranded on the side of the highway while making food deliveries. The couple had their tire blow out after a screw had punctured it.

Young couple Parker Suddeth and Zoe Reuter were doing DoorDash deliveries at the time of the tire incident on I-65 near Indianapolis.

After trying to change the tire, Suddeth had an issue with one of the lug nuts and didn't have the tools to complete the job.

"I tried to flag people down for like 20 minutes, no one wanted to pull over and help," the young man told WRTV.

All of a sudden, Richardson pulled up in a large truck and offered to help the couple with their trouble.

The NFL player, who stands at 6'4'', 244 pounds, reportedly offered to drive Suddeth to an auto parts store to get the appropriate tools.

"I didn't know who he was at first ... he leaned over and gave me this money and said, 'You guys should go get new tires,'" Suddeth recalled.

The quarterback and the delivery driver struck up conversation on their way to the auto parts store, which is where Suddeth found out who Richardson was.

"I asked him what he did for a living, and he said, 'Football,' and I asked him who he played for, and he said, 'The Colts,' and I said, 'You're the quarterback for the Colts, wow, I guess I'm a fan now!'" Suddeth recited.

"I guess I'm a Colts fan now." When Parker Suddeth and his girlfriend Zoe had a tire blowout on I-65, Colts Quarterback Anthony Richardson stepped up to help. He drove them to an auto parts store and gave them $200. \nFULL STORY >>> https://t.co/AVvMvEBtnS
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Richardson reportedly gave the couple $200 and didn't ask for any recognition.

"For him to just stop and help us, give me a ride, give me some money so we could get dinner that night, new tires, that's the world to me," the Indiana resident continued. "A lot of people wouldn't do that same thing he did for me, not even the money. Just stopping and helping."

"It's a little bit life-changing," added Reuter. "Because otherwise I would have had to go and spend all the money that I was going to put in my gas tank on the tires."

The couple admitted that because of Richardson's kindness they were actually able to take a night off from deliveries, which they said is rare for them.

Here's our story on Colts QB Anthony Richardson (@GVOaant) helping a stranded driver on the highway, giving him a ride to the auto parts store and even money for new tires - all without asking for any recognition. As we already know, the @Colts have a good one. @FOX59 @CBS4Indy
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Suddeth posted a picture of himself and Richardson to his Instagram page with the caption, "I guess I'm a Colts fan now."

Richardson replied on the post saying, "My guy! Weird way to make a new friend, rooting for ya my dude!"

Anthony Richardson pulled over to help a stranger stranded on the highway with a flat tire.\n\nClass act. \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc4f (via parker_p80/IG)
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FBI claims only 4.4% of active shooter incidents were thwarted by armed citizens, but real figure may be closer to 14.6%



John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), revealed in a report published on Wednesday by RealClearInvestigations that the FBI grossly underestimates (i.e., by an order of more than three) the number of times an armed citizen has thwarted an active shooter event. He suggested that the narrative constructed by the FBI and developed further by the media on the basis of the allegedly skewed data interpretation may be misused for political purposes.

Whereas the FBI reported that 4.4% of active shooter incidents between 2014 and 2021 were precluded or ended by armed citizens, the CPRC has found that the number is actually 14.6%. Lott admits that even this figure may be an underestimate.

Lott attributes the discrepancy to misclassified shootings and to overlooked incidents, both of which have much to do with how an "active shooter event" has been defined.

The FBI defines an active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area." An "active shooter incident" reportedly does not account for incidents the Bureau "deems related to other criminal activity, such as a robbery or fighting over drug turf."

Not only does the Bureau's selective definition allegedly mean that the number of active shooter incidents reported between 2014 and 2021 is smaller (252 as opposed to 281), but also that the number of incidents stopped by an armed citizen is smaller (11 as opposed to 41).

One instance cited in Lott's report is the case of 28-year-old Mercedes Perez, who crashed into a parked vehicle on August 11, 2021, and then started firing on the group of people who came over to help. A nearby resident ended her shooting spree.

Woman shot and killed after crashing car; shoots at people trying to check on her, police say YouTube - KENS-5

In another instance cited by the CPRC but ignored by the FBI, a Syracuse property manager "saved the lives of several individuals" on August 31, 2021, by shooting Demetris Jackson after Jackson opened fire on a group of people.

It is not just misclassification and inattention that may have resulted in the underestimation of armed citizen responses. The FBI depends upon reports from Texas State University's Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, reports which allegedly fail to pick up on incidents that do not receive news coverage of the kind that would usually trigger consideration.

"Although collecting such data is fraught with challenges," wrote Lott, "some see a pattern of distortion in the FBI numbers because the numbers almost exclusively go one way, minimizing the life-saving actions of armed citizens."

While the FBI might include the heroic efforts of armed citizens like Elisjsha Dicken — who stopped a mass shooter at an Indiana mall on July 17 — in this year's tally, the Bureau's alleged refusal to acknowledge other incidents may inadvertently dissuade more Americans from carrying or being prepared.

\u201cTwo U.S. Senators from Indiana are introducing a resolution to honor the victims of the Greenwood shooting and the man that prevented further bloodshed. https://t.co/mOIotiAUHS\u201d
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Lott intimated that this dissuasion, if not intended by the FBI, is nevertheless advanced by the media. He highlighted Indiana University Bloomington law professor Jody Madeira's comments in the Washington Post, printed after Dicken ended Jonathan Sapirman's rampage. Madeira suggested that an armed and prepared citizenry would be "particularly dangerous ... You'll get this idea that these people [e.g., Dicken] are needed out there to help protect citizens, when in reality that's the job of the police."