On Saturday May 24, the latest winner, North Carolina Sheriff’s Deputy Martin Lawing, will be featured on America’s Most Wanted at 9:00 PM ET, on Fox!   Read Martin’s story and see why these men and women deserve our respect and recognition after the jump:

A First Responder’s Story

Martin was a first responder along with SWAT Team officers last December to a scene which was a dangerous standoff. He was shot by a woman who was barricaded inside her home, as he approached to throw a cell phone though the window to help establish communications between her and law enforcement.

He was shot in the neck, and left paralyzed, without the use of his legs.  Since then, he’s been on a regimen of intense physical therapy, and hopes to regain use of his legs again.

Deputy Lawing’s Background and Big Win

Deputy Lawing also served for five years in the U.S. Army’s elite 3^rd Ranger Battalion, and was chosen out of more than 1000 First Responders who were nominated by the public via online voting at AWM.com and Sprint text messages.

It must have been an amazing treat for Lawing to get a call while at the rehab center from AMW’s host John Walsh to find out that e was chosen as grand prize winner. Martin’s prize is a check for $10,000.00 from Sprint, and to be a guest at NASCAR SPRINT Cup Series™ All-Star Race in Charlotte, NC, on May 17.

To see Deputy Lawing’s biography, and the profiles of all the first responders who were nominated, check out AMW’s All Stars. Here at FBI Dramas.com, we wish Martin and the other first responders congratulations, and a hearty thanks for what is for some an ultimate sacrifice!

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In the interview, he had plenty to say, and these are some of the topics he touched on today:

• What he is most proud of as far as being a part of the show
• His personal list of criminals he’d like to see captured
• The AMW web site and the importance of the Tip Line

Very soon I’ll have the interview posted, and you’ll be able to see how this man thinks, and what he has to say about crime fighting. Of all he said, today I thought it was important to pass on his comment, that AMW could never be the success it is without the fans who call in, or send tips to the show.

In this way, we are all fighting crime together. Although there is still a lot of work to do, things are getting better as far as legislation and the recognition of what we face.

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