Antonio Raul Rivera

Antonio Raul Rivera rescued a man from assault, Bolingbrook, Illinois, April 21, 2021. Inside his house in a residential neighborhood, a man, 64, called for police to intervene in a dispute with his 26-year-old son, who then stabbed the man in the head with a knife. The man fled the house to the front yard, where he collapsed and screamed for help. The assailant followed and continued to stab the man’s upper body as they struggled on the grass. A neighbor, Rivera, 50, nonprofit executive, who had been alerted by his daughter, responded, seeing that the assailant wielded a knife. Rivera rushed to the assailant and grasped his arm, impeding him from stabbing the man again, and tackled him to the ground next to the man. Rivera remained atop the assailant, restraining him, while another neighbor removed the knife from the scene, and the daughter and neighbor tended to the man until police and other first-responders arrived. Arriving police took the assailant into custody. The man was hospitalized for about three weeks as he recovered from wounds to his head, neck, and back and the partial amputation of a finger.