
A Jackson Doctor who was volunteering at the finish line of the Boston Marathon is now sharing what he saw after a series of explosions tore through the sidelines.
Dr. Richard Guynes is a cardiologist at the Jackson Heart Clinic but even he says he was unprepared for the injuries he worked-on Monday afternoon.
Right now in Boston investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department store surveillance video.
The male person-of-interest can be seen dropping off a bag at one of the sites of the bombings.
Twin bomb blasts killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday. Many suffered multiple amputations.
"Did I see anybody leave our tent that was just scared and flee? The answer is no," Guynes said.
Guynes and other volunteers with the Medical Staff of the Boston Marathon transformed into a battlefield medics that day.
But Guynes says he was originally attending the race out of his love for the event.
He competed and finished the Boston Marathon in 2005 plus he's annually pitched in at Jackson's own event.
"I've enjoyed working with the Blues Marathon in Jackson for about five years and I have a good friend named John Noblin who's the director. And I had spoken with him about a dream of mine to go up and work at the Boston Marathon," Guynes said
Noblin says he remembers the conversations.
"It's the World Series and the Super Bowl and all that of running," Noblin said.
In fact, Noblin says he was one of the first to hear back from Dr. Guynes after the explosion.
"It wasn't what he went up there for but he was certainly right in the middle of the action," Noblin said.
Dr. Guynes says it was 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday when he knew something had gone wrong.
"There was a very loud explosion. One that you could just kind of feel the reverberations for a second or so," Guynes said.
"Several of us, another physician and myself along with a few others started to walk to the front of the tent and within ten or fifteen seconds another explosion occurred."
"There was a lot of smoke coming toward the mouth of the tent. It was loud. There were already a lot of sirens and commotion and screaming. Just a lot of emotion."
"The first person that I went to help who was coming toward us was a gentleman who you may have seen on the news that was pushing a big jog stroller and then he was holding his ear which was bleeding profusely and it must have received some shrapnel ... and it was so loud and he was screaming and I was screaming trying to ascertain if he was the only one screaming or if the child was screaming also," Guynes said.
Now back in Jackson, he says he is trying to stay busy after everything he saw.
"I'm fine but my heart goes out to the victims and their families," Guynes said.