Crime gone unreported and ignored at a Dart bus stop - 10.7.17

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Saturday, October 7, 2017 - Dart bus stop, Dallas, TX unconscious person on the ground. We drove Southbound on South Hampton Rd. to the post office and to run errands at around 9:50 and when we were driving we both noticed what looked like, from a distance, was a pile of clothes laying on the ground at the Dart bus stop at the corner of Hampton at Kiest. But as we continued to drive closer to the intersection both of us realized that what first appeared to be clothes was in fact a person laying face down on the ground, legs outstretched, on their stomach, and arms out stretched. It looked like a person had been shot. Thoughts of death entered into my mind and my instincts clicked into fast mode. I got out my cell and started dialing 911. As we had driven just a block or so further Southbound on Hampton, just past the Hampton-Kiest interesction, I spotted a Dallas Police squad car sitting at the corner of a side-street facing East towards Hampton Rd. We slowed down and stopped at the curb just a few paces down from the police vehicle. I got out as fast as I could, waving my hands in the air to get the officer's attention. The officer, a female Dallas police officer, opened the passenger front window and I quickly informed her of what we just saw, basically indicating to the officer that A PERSON IS LAYING ON THE GROUND APPARENTLY UNCONSCIOUS, AT HAMPTON AT KIEST NEXT TO A BUS STOP. The lady officer replied, "I'll call it in, thank you." - I walked back to our car and got in and we drove on. My thoughts were, "Why would a person be lying down in this manner? Maybe they were passed out, maybe even dead. Why would all the passers-by just drive on past and not even stop to render aid? Was this poor lady, as it appeared that person was a female from general observation, an adult, African-American wearing ordinary clothing but wearing a back pack, like so many people do. It made me think about all the apathetic motorists. It made me wonder, just how long was that person lying there? Did someone shoot that person dead? Did that person fall from being in a drunken stupor? Could it have been murder? Later I was at home with my wife, wondering to myself about the situation and if that person, perhaps a lady, was still alive and what possible crime had been committed and lost hours of sleep from it. I even broke out into tears and tole my wife, "How can people be so cruel as to drive right by an unconscious person and act like they were invisible or that SOMEONE ELSE WILL TAKE CARE OF IT?" Well, I did take care of it. I got involved. I talked directly to a Dallas Police officer and am glad that I might have even saved that unfortunate person's life. It will take many days for me to get this event out of my mind but I wanted to share it with everyone at myLot to provide comments on this situation and offer their own stories about similar events in their everyday lives. Dallas, Tx is a very large city and crime occurs every few minutes 24/7-365. No off days.