File photo BELLAIRE Lt. Richard “Dick” Flanagan is the officer who found and helped save the life of a man who was shot Wednesday in the village.

BELLAIRE — Lt. Richard “Dick” Flanagan said he was “just doing my job” when he patched up a gunshot wound on a man he found lying in the middle of Noble Street on Wednesday.

Flanagan was working the midnight shift patrolling his native village of Bellaire when he found a man on the road.

“He had a sucking chest wound and was having a hard time breathing,” Flanagan said. “I performed first aid. … I patched him up.”

Flanagan said not long after he found the man, he received a call regarding a second man who also had been shot and was lying in a nearby backyard.

“I found the other guy dead. He was killed before he hit the ground,” Flanagan said.

The man Flanagan found in the street and assisted was Thomas Grubba, 34, of Wheeling. He was listed in critical condition at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling on Friday.

The man who died was Joshua Gorayeb, 34, also of Wheeling.

Police still are seeking the perpetrator, but one person has been arrested in connection with the incidents. Lola Eden, 52, of Bellaire has been charged with obstructing justice, drug trafficking and tampering with evidence. Her residence at 4157 Noble St. is where the shootings stemmed from, according to Flanagan.

“I was just doing my job. If I did something to help him, that’s fine. I know first aid and, being from the military, that’s not the first person shot I’ve helped,” he said.

The incident Wednesday was not the first time Flanagan has had to work to save a life. In the past, he said, he had to pull a person out of a burning house. In another incident he had to perform CPR on a toddler inside of his cruiser. About 10 years ago he pulled a woman from a car that was submerged in a cold and dangerous McMahon Creek.

Just two years ago, Flanagan saved another gunshot wound victim. Antonio Dalton had been accidentally shot in the chest by a friend. Flanagan stuck his fingers in the exit wound to keep Dalton from bleeding to death.

“It’s part of the job. I’m not a police officer, I’m a cop. … In this job you have to see things you don’t want to see and do things you don’t want to do. It’s the nature of the job. … You’ve got to become callous in the job or it will eat you up. You do things you wish you never had to do, and never had to see.”

He noted that sometimes his “old school” ways can get him into hot water.

“My greatest asset is my biggest liability — that’s my mouth,” he said. “I’ve never been politically correct, and I don’t kiss anyone’s” rear end.

Still, he believes in helping people no matter who they are. He also helps the elderly in the community. On Friday after finishing his midnight shift — the same shift he has worked for the past 25 years — he went and cut grass at several different elderly residents’ homes. He noted he doesn’t charge much money, maybe enough to cover the cost of the gas he uses in the mower.

Flanagan added he was just in the “right place at the right time” on Wednesday. He noted, however, there is one life he wishes he could have saved — that of his daughter — but there was noting he could do despite his training and experience. Ashley Nicole Flanagan died April 1, 2012, as a result of a blood clot complication from knee surgery. She was 27 years old.