Brooklyn College Kid Saved A Man's Life In London 'Terror' Attack: Video Report

SOUTH BROOKLYN, NY — Mark Kindschuh, a 19-year-old Boston College student who grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, reportedly saved a man's life in a suspected terrorist attack in London over the weekend.

In the immediate aftermath of a stabbing and shooting spree Saturday night at a pub in Borough Market, the teen college student told ABC7 in an exclusive video interview that he rushed to the front of the bar to help a man lying in a pool of blood.

"Looking back, it's terrifying — but in the moment, instinct kicks in," Kindschuh, who previously worked as a lifeguard in Breezy Point but has no other medical training, told ABC7. "I wasn't even thinking about the possibility of how much more dangerous it was up near the front of the pub." (For more local news stories that affect you, sign up for Patch's free email newsletters and real-time alerts for your NYC neighborhood.)

The man lived, according to ABC7 — unlike seven other attack victims who weren't so lucky that night.

Kindschuh's dad, a doctor at Coney Island Hospital, said he's "never been prouder."

Watch video interviews with the young Brooklyn hero and his father below.

"All I could see was one man at the front on the ground, with a pool of blood forming," Kindschuh told ABC7.

"You couldn't really see [the wound], because there was so much blood around his head, but I searched around with my hands, and it was on the back of his head," he said. Kindschuh now believes the man he saved was suffering from a gunshot wound.

"I got up and shouted towards the group of people in the back of the pub, 'Is there a doctor?'" he told ABC7. He said he got no response.

So, with bullets still flying outside the bar, Kindschuh ran out to find help. But police told him it wasn't safe, and that he needed to get back inside.

With nowhere left to turn, the Brooklyn native said he returned to the side of the man he'd been helping. Kindschuh then remembered taking off his own belt and wrapping it around the man's head to keep the victim from bleeding out.

In the words of the teen's father, Dr. Mark Kindschuh, who heads Coney Island Hospital's emergency department and works at several other hospitals around the city: "He stayed with him and didn't think of anything of himself."

Video by ABC7. Lead photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images