January 4, 2005
Washington Times
Little Sioux, IA, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- An Iowa man found a blood-soaked 4-year-old standing at his door with the 2-year-old sister she had just saved from a car wreck.
Brian Atwell of Little Sioux, Iowa, interrupted watching football Sunday to answer pounding on his door. There he found Payton Schuller, 4, bloody from a head cut, who had pulled her sister, Justice Gerfy, 2, from the wrecked Ford Bronco near his driveway.
Atwell said it was fortunate the girls chose his house since he was the only neighbor home at the time, the Omaha (Neb.) World Herald reported.
"I hollered to Sara (his wife) for help," Atwell said. "I couldn't believe my eyes."
He then went and turned off the still-running vehicle "and saw a pair of legs on the floor near the engine. Then I saw someone under the front of the vehicle. Neither was making a sound."
The family cared for the girls and watched "Lion King II" with them while authorities cleared wreckage from the accident that claimed the life of the girls' mother, Rachel Gerfy, 30, and passenger Dustin Moore, 17, all of Onawa, Iowa.
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