On Wednesday July 2, 2008 Officer W. S. Bostick thought he was responding to a routine residential breaking and entering call.  However, when he arrived at 1100 Woodside Avenue he found something else. 

He found a broken front window, which was broken from the inside, and not from the outside.  Officer Bostick knew no entry had been made into the residence, but Officer Bostick said, "Something just did not feel right to me."  He walked up to the front door and began knocking on the door, but no one answered.  Then he noticed the inside door was cracked so he continued knocking and eventually a young woman came to the door.  This is when Officer Bostick, "Knew that something was very wrong."  Lygretta Goode, the young woman, did not respond to him, "She just sat down on her couch and her eyes rolled back." 

Officer Bostick quickly got on the radio and informed dispatch he needed Medic to respond to the residence.  Officer Bostick stayed by Lygretta's side continuing to talk to her to try and figure out what was wrong.  While they were waiting for Medic to arrive Lygretta had a seizure and Officer Bostick remembered from training he had received to make sure she stayed on her side and to make sure the area around her was clear.  And that is exactly what Officer Bostick did until Medic arrived and took over treating Lygretta.  Medic treated her at the residence and within an hour Officer Bostick said, "I was able to talk and laugh with her." 

Lygretta's roommate asked Officer Bostick if he felt like a hero and he simply said, "I am very happy that things turned out they way they did, I feel good!"  Lygretta's roommate described what Officer Bostick did as "an excellent job that saved her life!"

Officer Bostick is assigned to the Eastway Division and is currently a School Resource Officer for Piedmont Middle School.