PHOTOS: The inspiring story of the police officer who helped a struggling runner
Asia Ford was participating in her first 10k (six miles) on Saturday. She began to feel sick after the fourth mile - and from his car, Lt. Aubrey Gregory noticed that she was beginning to falter.
"I'm not going to let her quit, so I got out and she immediately grabbed my hand," LMPD Lt. Aubrey Gregory later told Whas11.