Clever supervisor used bungee cord to help victim

A Carl’s Jr. supervisor near the YouTube shooting scene described his desperate efforts to stop a victim’s bleeding — with rubber bands normally on rolls of cash and a bungee cord.

Michael Finney, a 21-year-old supervisor at Carl’s Jr. across the street, told the San Jose Mercury News he was in the bathroom during the shooting and didn’t hear anything until he came out and saw a woman in a booth near the front door bleeding from the calf. Two of her friends were frantically trying to stem the bleeding. Finney rushed over to help. “I saw the lady was shot in the calf,” Finney told the Mercury News. “Her friends were trying to put pressure on the wound.”

At first they used the victim’s own sweatshirt, twisted it tightly and tied it above her calf — but it didn’t stop the hemorrhaging.

“Everyone was figuring out what to do,” Finney said. “I was trying to stay calm and see what I could do. Everybody is shocked.”

Finney then ran into the office and rummaged through the desk and cupboards. He first came out with rubber bands that are used for rolling money.

“I tried rubber bands at first and of course it didn’t work,” he said.

He raced back to the office and found a bungee cord, and they wrapped it tightly above the victim’s calf until the paramedics arrived.

Finney said the woman looked to be in her 20s and was calm as they tried helping her.