“I held him for another 20 minutes while we waited for the ambulance,”
20 minutes for an ambulance for a gunshot victim in Atlanta?
Never, ever depend on the government to help you when it’s needed.
That is sad but not surprising. The lesson to learn from that is that everyone should learn emergency medical procedures, and if a hospital is nearby it may be worthwhile to put together a plan for how to transport a victim to the hospital yourself, or with the help of neighbors.
DeKalb government has had crap ambulance service for a long time. I could bore you with detail over a two beer lunch, and beyond, on that one. And a friend of mine could pick up from there.